Corner Quotes

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To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but… — Frank Auerbach
When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner. — Zig Ziglar
The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner… — Charlie Munger
That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger… — Michael Lewis
There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort â€“ we were… — Eric Mangini
Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little… — Robert Kanigel
I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike… — Anthony Kiedis
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these… — Rebecca Harding Davis
I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner. — Sarah Polley
Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water from the crusted… — George Bird Grinnell
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. — Anouk Aimee
I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future. — Jan Egeland
You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take… — Helmut Jahn
If I indulge myself and surrender to memory, I can still feel the knot of excitement that gripped me as I turned the corner into… — Duane Michals
A lot of people give up when the world seems to be against them, but that's the point when you should push a little harder.… — James Dyson
It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than… — Billy Bragg
Is It Unloving to Speak of Hell? If you were giving some friends directions to Denver and you knew that one road led there but… — Randy Alcorn
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as… — Fernand Braudel
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room. — Alan Coren
The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesnâ€™t get much better than… — Bill Bryson

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