Quotes with corner

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  • Bruce Willis 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.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Abbie Hoffman I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet.
    Tikkun (July-August 1989)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Bernard Berenson I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • A. N. Wilson I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Al Sharpton I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Boris Becker If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Arthur Godfrey If I go to a seminar and someone like you or someone like him is talking, I'm never part of the group that rushes him directly afterward. I always wait in the back corner with my head down until everyone is gone, and then I go up and do my thing.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Rupert Brooke If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Ben Nicholas If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
    Ben Nicholas
    Australian actor
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bruce Nauman In this case we're building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Henry Miller Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now...
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Ben Nicholas 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.
    Ben Nicholas
    Australian actor
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  • T. S. Eliot Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Adele 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.
    Adele
    English singer-songwriter (1988 - )
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