"I had that trapped feeling, like some sort……" — Cornell Woolrich
"I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't."
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Cornell Woolrich
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20 Quotes by Cornell Woolrich
Cornell Woolrich has 20 quotes on this site.
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It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through…
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Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on…
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I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all…
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Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.
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It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died…
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The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment.…
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Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more.…
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It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks…
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I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just…
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You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a…
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I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills,…
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All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.
— Mary J. Blige
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up…
— Julie Burchill
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
— Michael Caine
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb…
— Zig Ziglar
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When we face seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the fulfillment of righteous responsibilities, we should remember that when we are involved…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
— Confucius
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Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit…
— Yvon Chouinard
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