Corner Quotes

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No matter what you do in life, a part of you still sits at a curbside, still hearing the drumbeat of a distant parade, still… — Robert Breault
Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was… — Ronnie Lott
You brake and then turn the wheel, step on the clutch, and pull the e-brake. Release the e-brake, go into countersteer mode, then wait. Wait… — Keiichi Tsuchiya
I drift not because it is a quicker way around a corner, but it is the most exciting way... — Keiichi Tsuchiya
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who… — James Russell Lowell
I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner. — Stephen King
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered… — John Mortimer
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishmanâ€™s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing… — Mark Zandi
I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ... — Kurt Vonnegut
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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… — Desiderius Erasmus
There ain't nothing like being in the corner, and the trainer is whispering in your ear and another guy is putting in your mouthpiece. Five… — George Foreman
Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are… — Edward Hoagland
I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under… — Gustave Flaubert
The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. — Stephen Hawking

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