Quotes of: Street-corner Keyword

Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

Bruce Oldfield

They really do occupy a scrumptious little dark corner of my heart!

Geoffrey Wood

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

J. R. R. Tolkien

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

Dierks Bentley

When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.

Josh Fox

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

Orison Swett Marden

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

Lesley Garrett

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

Nile Rodgers

Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did.

Taylor Swift

Love is waiting, just around the corner, over the hill...

Virginia Alison

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President

That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still the same old streets, and the wheels are likewise the same old wheels.

Beyond Good and Evil

I tried to be like the richer kids as much as I could because I wanted to live on their streets, at least hang out on their streets and eat their amazing food and walk barefoot on their shag carpets. I became something of a pest in that way, and in g...

Lynda Barry

It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.

44 Scotland Street

Will you treat people who make you miserable, as prison guards, or travel agents?

My Thoughts Prefer Side Streets - Collected Essays and Other Reflections

Sometimes I think people were meant to be strangers. Not to get to know one another, not to get close enough to damage the heart made older by each new encounter.

Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows

Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven.

One Way Street And Other Writings

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.

Pulp

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

Perdido Street Station

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

The Prophet of Zongo Street: Stories

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.

Perdido Street Station