#yards

I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards. ↗

— Trent Dilfer

#bunker #carry #had #i #part

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#around #future #goes #know #nothing

I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you. ↗

— Esther Williams

#could #everything #first #get #had

That picture has become a sort of yardstick for everything else I've done. ↗

— Robert Hamer

#done #else #everything #i #picture

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#candidate #gain #ones #over #people

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#graveyards #i #personally #pick

At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#dispute #family #got #grandfather #honor

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#human #human rights #interests #national #national interests

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#every #guide #individual #know #language

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#ears #hundred #lived #night #our