Corner Quotes
1346 Corner quotes by 1067 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.
— Sarah Polley
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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
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Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
— Anouk Aimee
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
— Alan Coren
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The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than…
— Bill Bryson
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Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come…
— Lionel Richie
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Burnin marijuana pon di corner, It keep me calmer, It mek me smarter. Burnin pon di highway, its the highest grade, gettin into my head.
— Richie Spice
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With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
— Philip Sidney
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No, I don't have any problems leaving disappointments behind. I've had lots of good days at golf and a few disappointments, so you never know…
— Lee Westwood
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Time and again I hear how important the darker environment is to those at our vintage-faith worship gathering. Attenders feel they can freely pray in…
— Dan Kimball
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In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa,…
— Paul Tsongas
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Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not…
— Francesca Woodman
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You can walk as carefully as you want through a mine field; it is still a mine field. But it's also true that if you…
— Dave Sim
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Early in April, as I was vigorously hoeing in a corner, I unearthed a huge toad, to my perfect delight and satisfaction; he had lived…
— Celia Thaxter
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INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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