Corner Quotes
1346 quotes by 1109 authors
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Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.
— Henry Beston
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner.…
— George Sand
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If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down,…
— Magic Johnson
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The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until…
— Richard P. Feynman
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At dinner time he would sit in a corner, concentrating; and suddenly they would say, 'Time to feed the cat,' as if it were their…
— Lilian Jackson Braun
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll…
— Bertolt Brecht
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The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect-to help people work together-and not as a…
— Tim Berners-Lee
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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.. every single corner and aspect of our lives, every single choice, will be different if we take the invitation of this [Rumi's] poetry to…
— Andrew Harvey
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You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in…
— Kerri Walsh
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You shout and the valleys shout, or you sing and the valleys sing. Each heart is a valley. If you pour love into it, it…
— Rajneesh
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Yes, Yes Yall, You know we talkin it all see how we bringing the street corner to Cargenie hall
— Busta Rhymes
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What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh.…
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom…
— Alan Dershowitz
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Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world…
— Rick Bass
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The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was…
— Jonathan Swift
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You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only…
— Charles Kingsley
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Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the…
— Hans Zinsser
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their…
— Simon Schama
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