Quotes with corner

  • Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
  • There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
  • I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
  • The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.
  • I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.
  • Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
  • The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
  • Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
  • Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
  • My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around my neck. Like an old-school mime. Like a kid in the naughty corner. Like a Victorian mute.
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bayard Taylor 'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
    ― Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bjork A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.
    ― Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
    ― Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ben Affleck Anxiety is a kind of fuel that activates the fight-or-flight part of the brain in me. It makes sure that a velociraptor isn't around the corner and that you do as much as you possibly can to survive. Because Hollywood has a lot in common with 'Jurassic Park' and its primeval-dinosaur universe.
    ― Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bode Miller Anyone who isn't strong is left in a corner, no one asks for their autograph, they are abandoned in the cold shadows. Those who win, however, become icons.
    Source: Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    ― Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Albert Camus At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
    ― Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Herb Shriner Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.
    ― Herb Shriner
     
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  • Edward Hoagland Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
    ― Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Carter Burwell Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
    ― Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Agatha Christie Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
    ― Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Samuel Johnson Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
    ― Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Jean Paul Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
    ― Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
    ― Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • B. B. King Growing up on the plantation there in Mississippi, I would work Monday through Saturday noon. I'd go to town on Saturday afternoons, sit on the street corner, and I'd sing and play.
    ― B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Bryan Greenberg I actually feel like I have developed friendships through Twitter, people that I've worked with I can kind of keep up with them. I've totally turned a corner. I get it. And Instagram.
    ― Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Alan Alda I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
    ― Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Bruce Coville I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
    ― Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.
    ― Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Heywood Broun I have known people to stop and buy an apple on the corner and then walk away as if they had solved the unemployment problem.
    ― Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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