Keith Ellison

A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead of fixing it, they take out the engine and charge you an arm and a leg, you should conclude that mechanics can't fix cars and you should probably just take yours to the junkyard and sell it for scrap metal.

American Politician

Tom Robbins

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

American Author

Bonnie Jo Campbell

For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.

American Novelist

Michael Leunig

We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?

Australian Cartoonist

Steven Weber

I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.

American Actor

Bruce Robinson

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.

English Director

Chuck Palahniuk

Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

The term 'junkyard' is informal and used in everyday conversation rather than in formal writing.

Informality

'Junkyard' implies a place full of waste and discarded items, often perceived as dirty or unattractive.

Negative Connotation

Despite the name, junkyards can be treasure troves for finding useful parts at low cost.

Resourceful Place

 they've got to try and figure it out, but most of the time, that's the end of the road. Those machines go the proverbial junkyard. And the price tag of the machine that I mentioned could represent maybe a quarter or a third of the annual operating budget for this hospital.

Erica Frenkel: The...

 My father found that in a junkyard, and was able to repair it and make it work. And somehow -- to this day, I frankly don't know how he was so aware of what was going on in the world -- but, by inviting me to sit down with him when I was only a few years old,

Hector Ruiz: The power...

 She also explores themes of consumerism, and the environment, such as in this work, where these basket-like objects look organic and woven, and are woven, but with the strips of steel, salvaged from cars that she found in a Bangalore junkyard.

Ravin Agrawal: 10 young...

 they smelled terrible. And there were leaks. A substitute coolant was badly needed. One that would circulate inside the refrigerator, but would not poison anyone if the refrigerator leaked. Or pose a danger if it was sent to the junkyard.

Coming of Age in the...

 down-to-earth person loves the campout probably get a lot of use out of this piece done with another piece three more after this one but right now I need some more metal so I'm gonna saddle up my mule and ride down to the old junkyard

Blacksmith for Barter PIPE...

 can't do that price man I'm trying to buy spark plugs here to extract the platinum but there is no way I can make a profit at that price that surprise we give out here man and there are dollar 20 each this junkyard dog is really

Spark Plugs PIPE National...

 visiting five and explore and inhabited Islands imagine that you want to understand how cars work and all you know our car wrecks in a junkyard there is no way you're going to imagine that this car can take you from A to B the

Ocean Now Project: The...

 And from out of stage left comes this wild, male polar bear, with a predatory gaze. Any of you who've been to Africa or had a junkyard dog come after you,

Stuart Brown: Play is...

 a junkyard is Viper heavy with plenty of hiding places to launch enamel somewhere in the darkness the world's most

Rattle Snake Bite...

 a junkyard is viper heavy with plenty of hiding places to launch an ambush