Quotes of: Cornered Keyword

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.

Bonnie Blair

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.

Venus Williams

He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash...

Angela's Ashes

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to b...

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The possibilities of pleasure seemed that morning so enormous and so various that to have only a moth's part in life, and a day moth's at that, appeared a hard fate, and his zest in enjoying his meagre opportunities to the full, pathetic. He flew vig...

Street Haunting

I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional sel...

Life After God

210Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine soci...

Victor Hugo

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

Scott Thompson

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

Archibald Hill

Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!

Kate Ashfield

in the corner of the painting of success the signature is blurred

Hourglass Museum

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Peter Dinklage

It started off at a club called Disobey, around the corner from where I live.

Richard D. James

I do like to hang out in the corner and keep my eye on the party, or be outside in a smaller group.

Sara Gilbert

I was not born for one corner; The whole world is my native land.

Seneca

You should never doubt yourself because you never, ever know what's around the corner.

Kellie Pickler

I have books in every corner of my house. 'Cleaning' my books is a pointless endeavor.

Love The Stacks Bookstore

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

Leon Panetta

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.

Rick Riordan

Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them.

Marty Rubin

To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.

Mike White