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All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf. -- Helen Thomas
I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf. -- Mike Mills
But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground. -- Helen Garner
I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people. -- Britt Ekland
I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed. -- Walter Payton
Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution. -- Chris Christie
I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf -- Laura Hillenbrand
Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf. -- Alice S. Rossi
Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries. -- Iain Banks
To get the best coaching outcomes, always have your 1-on-1's on your employee's turf not yours. In your office the truth hides. -- Marcus Buckingham
A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden, rather than fight over the turf. -- Bruce H. Lipton
Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! -- Henry Hazlitt
Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground. -- Reid Hoffman
I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf and I'm mean and turf, And me an' my friends can walk towards you with our hats on backwards in a menacing way, Yo! -- Terry Pratchett
The Senate voted 97-0 for an anti-spam bill to stop those annoying things you get on your computer. The senators made it very clear that when you start misleading the American people and start taking their money over false promises, that's our turf, buddy! -- Jay Leno
When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hide my hiding place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions. -- John Green
I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break. -- William C. Bryant
Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence. -- William Hazlitt
All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism. -- Jeanne Marie Laskas
Never fight turf on turf. Fight it on the basis of ideas. -- Elliott Abrams
I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf. -- Laura Hillenbrand
Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf. -- Alice S. Rossi
I enjoy learning about the new technologies. I enjoy getting to know the new fans and dealing with them on their turf. -- Lea Thompson
It's an honor to support such a worthy program. TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly. -- Boomer Esiason
The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf. -- Leslie Jamison
I guess what I'm really saying is something obvious - that there's a unique pride in watching a home team from rival turf, especially when we're not supposed to be any good. -- Serge Schmemann
In the 1970s, Japan moved into the U.S. turf with its televisions, cars, chips, and steel. But if you think about it, the only business Japan destroyed was the U.S. television industry. -- Fujio Mitarai
The biggest mistake is trying to pinch down on the ball and ripping out a big divot, often hitting the ground before the ball. You'll dig up some turf, but you won't create much backspin. -- Ernie Els
I used to turn my shoulders pretty level, which a lot of golfers think is correct. But that made my swing too shallow coming into impact, so my contact was picky, especially off the turf. -- Matt Kuchar
There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf. -- Stephen Rodrick
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots. -- Camilla Lackberg
Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation. -- Cyrus S. Poonawalla
When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right. -- George Foreman
From the outside, Yahoo was extremely successful. It was making money; it was still bigger than Google. But when I got there, I learned what a disaster of a company looks like from the inside. There were a lot of vice presidents, and it was basically a turf battle between them. -- Stewart Butterfield
Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure. -- Tony Judt
When I went to England on my own, I became a busker. I played guitar for money in Leicester Square. And the guys who are supposedly blind and crippled, who aren't, got me after I'd collected a lot of money, took my money and threatened to break my arm if I ever came back to their 'kip,' their turf. -- Saul Rubinek
There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass. -- Ken Kesey
I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that. -- Bruno Dumont
Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person. -- Bernard Madoff
It is only natural to expect that guilds will tend to "protect their turf" and to resist challenge. -- Noam Chomsky
Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. -- Neal A. Maxwell
To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf. -- Nancy K. Miller
Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. -- William Wordsworth
He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone. -- William Shakespeare
I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo. -- Elizabeth May
He might have gotten his way in the hallway earlier, but now he's on my turf. He isn't gonna push me around. -- Melyssa Winchester
I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century. -- Beano Cook
Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. -- Fitz-Greene Halleck
I never seem to be able to sell my films correctly in the U.S. The U.S. defends itself on its own turf. -- Michel Ocelot
No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him. -- Gideon Haigh
I think he [Raul] is the greatest player to have ever played the game. He walks on the turf and astounds. It is utterly amazing. -- Luis Figo
Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire. -- J. I. Packer
Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year. -- Lord Byron
Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls. -- Virginia Woolf
For underground metaphors, you can scrape an inch below the turf. For what it's worth, my style's been developed in the core of the Earth. The exhale's volcanic, the inhale is seismic... -- J-Live
Every time I set foot on the Bernabeu turf I got the jitters, a kind of anxiety that takes hold of you the moment you step out into the glare of the floodlights. -- Jorge Valdano
When you go to plant a flag on the visiting team's field, it's a form of taunting, .. What message are you sending when you spear it into the turf of your defeated opponent?. -- Brad Davis
One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations. -- T.C. Boyle
On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk And snivering stem its magic weaves A mantle fair as lily-leaves. -- John Townsend Trowbridge

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