Famous quotes containing the words yard, field and/or goal:
“Look, were all the same; a man is a fourteen-room housein the bedroom hes asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room hes rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library hes paying his taxes, in the yard hes raising tomatoes, and in the cellar hes making a bomb to blow it all up.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
“In the quilts I had found good objectshospitable, warm, with soft edges yet resistant, with boundaries yet suggesting a continuous safe expanse, a field that could be bundled, a bundle that could be unfurled, portable equipment, light, washable, long-lasting, colorful, versatile, functional and ornamental, private and universal, mine and thine.”
—Radka Donnell-Vogt, U.S. quiltmaker. As quoted in Lives and Works, by Lynn F. Miller and Sally S. Swenson (1981)
“Experts are saying that President Bushs goal now is to politically humiliate Saddam Hussein. Why dont we just make him the next Democratic presidential nominee?”
—Jay Leno (b. 1950)