Quotes About Corner

The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.

I had one objective: fix this. There was one other thought in a corner of my brain: What the

It is a true pleasure to live in a century in which such great events take place, provided that one can take shelter in some little corner and watch the play in comfort. (attributed to N. Poussin)

Running along the back wall was a long glass trophy case filled with loving cups, ribbons, school and sports memorabilia; in ominous proximity were several large funeral wreaths which, in conjunction with the trophies, gave that corner of the room a Kentucky Derby sort of look.

believed them to be aggressors. He would also roam the castle at night, howling like a wolf, and often hid in corners due to his belief that he was made entirely out of glass and

Suddenly there it is, my own spirit: an old white dog with bowed legs and swaying head staring around the corner of the porch with one mad, cataract-filled eye.

She was a tall woman with a wide smile, good tits and a way of licking mayonnaise out the corner of her mouth which suggested she might be equally good at licking mayonnaise out the corner of yours.

Muchas veces la felicidad está a la vuelta de la esquina, esa esquina que nunca nos atrevemos a doblar.

for a few moments, and he went inside. Halfway down the hall and around a corner, he

The day is declining through the white afternoon to the long blue spring evening. He drives past a corner where someone is practicing on a trumpet

Strength comes from every hurdle we have to jump, every corner we have to turn & every obstacle that stands in our way... We are Woman, Strong Today & Tomorrow.

northwest corner.

Good girls are found in every corner of earth. But unfortunately earth is round.

Anyone can ride a bike," Jack said. "Even an elf." The corner of his mouth went up in amusement. "She can ramble through the grove, her natural habitat, and visit her animal subjects.

A CHILD SPOKE ABOUT HIS FEAR, LONG AGO. IT RESEMBLED A little song: In the attic there's a beam that hits you on the head, there's a wind that bangs the shutters, there's a mouse that peeps out of the corner.

A professor once described the brain to me as a great silent vault. A dark theater with nothing. playing on the screen. Just electrical charges bouncing corner to corner, like lightbulbs flashing off and on.

How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?

Leading from the front: Its what built America. But these days, the federal government isnt at the front its cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices.

Put in the post office at the corner of Signal Street and Ojai Avenue in Ojai." In the backseat, Scatty stirred. "Oh, not Ojai. Please tell me we're not going there.

Your rendezvous and evacuation point is down there, on the corner of Dead Guy Ave and You're Fucked Street.

Excuse me. I think you must've accidentally used the wrong pronoun." The growl that rumbled up out of his chest was loud enough to rattle the water glass on the bedside table. "Fine, you can stand in the corner and cheer while I kill him.

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

Why, then, make a show of the poverty of our life and our sad imperfection, unearthing people from the backwoods, from remote corners of the state? But what if this is in the writer's nature, and his own imperfection grieves him so, and the makeup of his talent is such, that he can only portray the poverty of our life, unearthing people from the backwoods, from the remote corners of the state! So here we are again in the backwoods, again we have come out in some corner!

And now, at length, in my declining years, I am seeking a corner in which to eke out the remainder of my miserable existence, while at the present moment I am enjoying the hospitality of a neighbour of your acquaintance.