The Chess-board must be placed with a white square at the right-hand corner.
If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.
The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind.
When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.
Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson had imagined the American experiment coming to all sorts of bad ends. They never imagined the Federal City overrun by frontiersmen who cared nothing for history and loved only cheap land a...
He never had nothing of his own before, except the kid, and he can’t claim but half the credit, there, maybe less. T.J.’s blond like his mamma, and stubborn, too. Won’t let nobody hold him except her. Cries every time his daddy picks him up. Ev...
What’s the biggest problem facing teenagers today? Ourselves. We’re a generation of lazy underachievers who need to learn that hard work pays off. What’s your town known for? Cow manure! Hold for laughs... Actually Irondale is the setting of Fa...
Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. Fo...
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social...
After Nick rescued Kate from an attack at the football game they talk as he drives her home. "I said that because I really did see a monster." I looked at Nick as we turned a corner in the road. "You don't think I'm crazy do you?" I like that quote b...
And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.
I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody.
Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next.
I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.
When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner.
A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.