Best hundred & yards Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.”

Thinking Years Different Form Five Imagine Heard Hundred Years Ago Cat Madness Stranger Tricks Likes Imagine That Yards Grey Present Day

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Creeping with awe to the verge, I peered down into a large rent which had been made from bank to bank of the broad Zambezi, and saw that a stream of a thousand yards broad leaped down a hundred feet [30 m] and then became suddenly compressed into a space of fifteen to twenty yards.”

Made Space Saws Feet Thousand Hundred Twenties Streams Awe Broads Fifteen Yards Verge

Author:David Livingstone

“By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder.”

Years Country Lasts Ten Hundred Incredibles Russia Explanation Yards Coincidence Boulders

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source: I Have Changed

“My wife Ann and I had been digging during the day, transplanting lilies from the front of this abandoned farmhouse back down the road to where we live. We finished. She was tired and laid in the grass. I took a picture. The house is now gone. The walnut trees have been bulldozed and burned. I saw this picture the other day for the first time in years and realized how photographing life within a hundred yards of my front porch had helped me focus on everything I cared about.”

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.”

Three Ten Hundred Nine Seconds Yards Sprinters

Book:I Have Changed

Source: I Have Changed

“You need to save some mental, physical, and emotional resources for enhancing your product after you ship. A revolution is a triathlon, not a hundred-yard dash-it requires long distance stamina and multiple skills such as creating, churning, and evangelizing.”

Needs Long Emotional Products Revolution Skills Creating Hundred Resources Distance Ships Multiple Yards Long Distance Stamina Churning Triathlon

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“A primary flaw in my psychology is that I'll give people a hundred yards' worth of rope with which to hang themselves, but once they reach that hundred-yard line, I strangle them to death with it.”

People Giving Lines Psychology Hundred Primaries Flaws Yards Rope

Author:Jim Goad

“Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.”

Source: Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

“Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.”

Looks Couple Hundred Chicago Yards Arizona Saddened Buoys

Author:Jack Adams

“Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled. Each second was two hundred yards, to be walked, crawled. You couldn't see the next hour, it was so far in the distance. Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.”

Made Two Next Hours Memories Tomorrow Hundred Filled Distance Holes Horizon Yards

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.”

Cities Hundred Innocent Yards Arrows Bystanders

Book:Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)

Source: Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)

“The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how far away the sea was. Only men could do things like that. "Half a mile." "Fifty yards." Giving directions, that sort of thing. I could look at a woman and say "Thirty-six C." Or "Let's try it in the next size up." But I had no idea how far away Tim's sea was except that I wouldn't want to walk to it in high heels.”

Men Want Giving Trying Looks Ideas Next Bits Walks Half Sea Fields Six Hundred Window Size Miles No Idea Thirty Fifty Far Away Heels Yards High Heels Giving Directions

Author:Marian Keyes

“A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.”

Body Doors Car Hundred Skins Concrete Wet Yards Mike Corpses Newton Sidewalk Midnight Sun

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment.”

Ifs Way Moments Games Realizing Air Fields Huge Kings Battle Hundred Horse Green Clean Golf Clubs Holes Dragons Yards Rabbits Exaggeration Goblin Rabbit Holes Green Fields

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.”

Two Universe Hundred Sitting Smoking Shore Entity Yards Pipe Hypnotic Smoking A Pipe

Book:O Jerusalem

Source: O Jerusalem

“The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.”

World Love Mind Humans War Universe Memories Battle Thousand Hundred Useless Sensations Human Mind Yards Mud Thirteen Casualties

Book:The Magus

Source: The Magus

“It's the oldest story in the world. Boy loves girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back thanks to the unethical behavior of megalomaniacal mad scientists who never met a corpse they wouldn't try to resurrect. Anyone coming within a hundred yards of my happy ending had better pray that they're immune to bullets. - Shaun Mason”

World Trying Stories Girl Loses Boys Praying Mets Behavior Hundred Scientist Mad Thanks Bullets Yards Corpses Happy Endings Immune Masons Unethical Mad Scientist Boy Girl

Author:Mira Grant

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

Two Night Voice Sea Hundred Ears Yards

Book:My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes

Source: My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes

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