Yard Sale Quotes

• I have an antique console stand-up radio that I bought in a yard sale, that I've always half-believed has magical properties. It's in my office, and it has watched over each of the fifteen books I've written. It also helped me find my wife.

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  Ben Mezrich

  Book   Wife   Office  

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I've never had a yard sale, ever, in my life. I don't know if I ever thought about stuff I would get rid of.

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  Will Ferrell

  Yards   Stuff   Yard Sale  

  "Interview with Actor Will Farrell". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com. May 12, 2011.

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• There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

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  Dave Grohl

  Kids   Trying   Yards  

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• Relationships are a lot like yard sales. They look really fun from a couple hundred feet away, but eventually you realize it's just a bunch of crap you don't need.

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  Christian Finnegan

  Couple   Fun   Feet  

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• Thank you, yard sales, for being the perfect way to say to your neighbors: We think we're important enough to charge money for our garbage.

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  Jimmy Fallon

  Thinking   Perfect   Important  

  "Late Night 'Thank You Notes' From Jimmy Fallon". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.

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  Mac Barnett

  Book   Kids   Men  

  "Mac Barnett & Jory John Talk with Roger". Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

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• As Stephanie and Lula were going after the bad guys, Lula was making preparations from the trunk of her Firebird. Stephanie looked inside and stopped breathing for a beat. "That's a rocket launcher!" "Yep," Lula said. "It's a big boy. I got it at a yard sale in the projects.

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  Janet Evanovich

  Boys   Breathing   Guy  

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• If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?

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  Mardy Grothe

  Art   Memorable   People  

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