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Quotes About Corner

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
~ Clarence Darrow
ENOCH ROUNDS THE CORNER JUST as the executioner raises the noose above the woman's head.
~ Neal Stephenson
A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Did they realise, as they sat huddled together in the corner of the snug, that they were all outsiders in one way or another? Marked apart by the fierceness of their curiosity, they moved among the docile majority unacknowledged, mistrusted and unloved to the point where they only found solace in one another's company.
~ Christopher Fowler
Her yerde erinç arad?m, ama hiçbir yerde bulamad?m, bir kitapla çekildiÄŸim köÅŸeden baÅŸka.
~ Umberto Eco
I sought peace in everything, but never was I happier than in a corner with a book
~ Umberto Eco
Yelling was like a bomb in the corner: you saw it, watched the fuse burn, and you knew when it would explode and you needed to run for cover. Not speaking was a killer somewhere in your house with a gun when you were sleeping.
~ Kristin Hannah
There were some piled furs in the corner, but they were gross and old, and Zuzana was pretty sure that a variety of otherworldly vermin were living out rich, multigenerational sagas in them.
~ Laini Taylor
So here we are once more in the wilds, and once more we've come upon some out of the way corner. But what a wilderness, and what an out of the way corner!
~ Gogol Nikolai Gogol
On each piece of paper I found addresses, telephone numbers, memos of various rendezvous made and kept—or perhaps not kept—people met and remembered, or perhaps not remembered, hopes probably not fulfilled: certainly not fulfilled, or I would not have been standing on that street corner.
~ James Baldwin
As long as I can get Bobby Heenan in my corner, then I'm a happy man because, to me, Bobby Heenan is one of the most underrated performers of all time. He's in my top five of all time performers because I don't think people realize just how good he was.
~ Austin Aries
Technically, my husband and I are residents of the Alpes-Maritimes, where we are tucked away on our olive farm overlooking the Bay of Cannes in a corner that is, as yet, rather undiscovered.
~ Carol Drinkwater
Happiness lives in every corner of your home and if you are homeless, it lives under the leaves of trees, hiding beneath the sky's cloudiness. All you need to do is to find it with patience.
~ Munia Khan
But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.
~ Evan Peters
It will be impossible for us to eradicate HIV as long as any corner of the world is cut off from the education and services that we know helps stop the spread of this disease.
~ Alex Newell
I haven't got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her - she was charming.
~ Sandi Toksvig
My dad grew up in a little place near Charleston called Moncks Corner.
~ Stephen Thompson
I enjoy some nights in the studio. I'm not the greatest person in an enclosed space; I'm a live player by birth - like a gypsy folk player, I just sit in the corner and play.
~ Rory Gallagher
A lady should be respectful, is all he manages through gritted teeth. He pitches the towel in the corner. Miriam snorts. That's me. My fair fuckin' lady.
~ Chuck Wendig
All of a sudden I noticed that he had noticed that I did not seem to have noticed Chum protruding from beneath the other corner of the chest. We fell to wrestling again. We rolled all over the floor, in each other's arms, like two huge helpless children. He was naked and goatish under his robe, and I felt suffocated as he rolled over me. I rolled over him. We rolled over me. They rolled over him. We rolled over us.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
One corner of his mouth twitched. "Should I consider that a warning?" "Just don't be surprised if you find yourself riding a bolt of lightning if you piss me off." "I'm into kinky shit, so that works.
~ Larissa Ione
white comforter. It was midafternoon, and the curtains were drawn, but a lamp in the corner had been left on, a towel draped over the shade to mute it, and the
~ Celeste Ng
It was high time Ivor got moving. It wasn't fair to be dead and yet to hang around like this, in every room, in every corner of the house….There ought to be something like a fly-spray, a fly-spray for ghosts, a ghost-spray….
~ Celia Fremlin
Why?" said Stryver. "Now, I'll put you in a corner," forensically shaking a forefinger at him. "You are a man of business and bound to have a reason. State your reason. Why wouldn't you go?" "Because," said Mr. Lorry,
~ Charles Dickens