Quotes About Corner

Mr. Vholes's office, in disposition retiring and in situation retired, is squeezed up in a corner and blinks at a dead wall.

With a pansy for the pussy in the corner.

corner to the front of the store, where the buff

His ace in the hole was the pipe in the corner, the emergency shutoff valve.

Cops are everywhere in New York City. Cars drive by every few minutes. Uniforms stand nonchalantly at street corners.

Units were coming to combat with DCGS because it was their tool kit, so to speak, but they basically had it boxed up and parked in a corner. They were using off-the-shelf stuff they were having to buy prior to coming into the theater.

Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

Examine what you do and examine what other women do. Examine the dreams that men hold of you and how they force you in a corner, literally and figuratively.

But it was as if a tiny animal living in the corner of my mind, smaller than a mouse, smaller than an ant, and unobtrusive even considering its size, was saying, 'Bullshit.

Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it.

expecting anything so fine and wonderful to be turning the corner upon me? I came near being found unworthy. Hard by, says he, is a café, snug and suitable for the entertainment of idiosyncrasies. Let us go there and have drink while we discuss the unavailability of the categorical. So saying, he marched me and Tobin to the back room of a saloon, and ordered the drinks, and laid the money on the table. He looks at me and Tobin like brothers of his, and we have the segars.

I want to see the king, I said, after explaining who I was. Wonderful, said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. I'm glad for you. That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. Why are you so glad? I asked. Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.

I don't know who God is but if I meet Him anytime soon I'm going to get Him in the corner until He tells me the truth.

This same library is my den — the only corner of the Hall-house where I am safe from my … cousins. They never venture there, I suppose for fear the folios should fall down and crack their skulls; for they will never affect their heads in any other way... — Miss Diana Vernon

Tallow turned the corner into Bat and Scarly's office to be greeted by a large plastic robot on the bench waving its arms and shouting, Say hello to my l'il frien' in an electronically processed voiced as a small plastic penis repeatedly jabbed out from its groin on a short metal piston. Bat emerged from behind the thing. Don't judge me, he said. I got bored.

Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

The next morning I learned why our room was called the Far East Suite. It was located in the corner of the Lost Arms that was the farthest east, and so the very first rays of the sunlight came through the shutters and poked me in the eye. "Go play," I told the sunlight. "I'll catch up with you later." The sunlight insisted that I wake up right this very minute, so I sat up in bed and went into the bathroom to wash my face and change my clothes.

And she leaned back in the corner, to indulge her murmurs, or to reason them away; probably a little of both—such being the commonest process of a not ill-disposed mind.

and the chef has long since moved on, but it is the perfect bar to have a couple of glasses of wine in a quiet corner while she gets out her notepad and jots down ideas. She needs ideas because time is running out. She needs to find a big story, and fast. Cat perches at the bar itself for the first glass of wine, surprised it disappears so quickly, taking a little longer over the

Okay, but who knows what happens at night? They could come alive like the zombies." I turned the corner and drove to my parents' house. "You need cake." "Hell, yeah.

You could stand her on a corner, in a fog, at midnight, and she'd be visible for three miles.

tinted windows rounded the corner, obviously chasing Kevin. It blew past us, screeching to a

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.