Corner Quotes
1346 quotes by 1109 authors
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That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have…
— Gideon Defoe
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Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a…
— Joanne Harris
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I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are…
— Stephen Fry
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But perhaps this is all to the good. Perhaps it’s best to live with the possibility that around any corner, at any time, may come…
— Sue Miller
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What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.
— Quentin Tarantino
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Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a…
— Ricky Gervais
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She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
— Jerry Spinelli
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I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The…
— George Saunders
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She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and now she had…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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You might get lucky and die in some corner. ~Soi Fon
— Tite Kubo
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I spotted a can in the corner whose red label read SADNESS. Was there so much of it they could can it and sell it?…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the…
— Bono
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There's nothing wrong with you..not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter
— Vicki Pettersson
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A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being.
— Mariama Bâ
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I find her anecdotes more efficacious than sheep-counting, rain on a tin roof, or alanol tablets.... you will find me and Morpheus, off in a…
— Dorothy Parker
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Before this war is over,' [Walter] said - or something said through his lips - 'every man and woman and child in Canada will feel…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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We have probably wondered in our many lonesome moments if there is one corner in this competitive, demanding world where it is safe to be…
— Henri Nouwen
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These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light,…
— John Cheever
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