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Quotes About Corner

the corner by the old Piggly Wiggly building, I felt the familiar edge
~ Edie Claire
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner,Eating a Christmas pie.He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum,And said, "What a good boy am I!"
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
~ Anouk Aimee
Max looks up from his book and says, "Mutti, what goes around the world but stays in a corner?" "I don't know, Max." "A postage stamp.
~ Anthony Doerr
Mutti, what goes around the world but stays in a corner?" "I don't know, Max." "A postage stamp.
~ Anthony Doerr
as we turned the corner and began to walk down the rutted track that led to Staples Inn Gardens. The moment we appeared, the hurdy-gurdy man stopped playing and I recalled that he had behaved in exactly the same way the last time we had come here. It would have been natural for Jones to make straight for the barber's shop – was that not
~ Anthony Horowitz
Would I get into politics? I'll just say what I tell people when they ask me this: Pray that everyday citizens like me aren't pushed to that corner.
~ Kamal Haasan
Full of anticipation about their new mystery, the Hardys drove directly to their tree-shaded house at the corner of High and Elm streets.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don't find yourself.
~ Franz Kafka
A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.
~ Nick Clooney
My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block.
~ Alan Davies
Street stalls, be they in Korea, Thailand or anywhere else in Asia, in a covered market or simply on a street corner with a few brightly coloured plastic stools and tables, are my favourite places in the world to eat.
~ John Torode
If I'm backed into a corner, the first thing that comes to mind is the robot from Forbidden Planet. But that could be me trying to be kitschy, cool, and cultural, because the real answer is R2D2.
~ Christian Slater
We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.
~ Mitt Romney
A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.
~ Roger Ebert
And his employees already are entrenched at the corner of Whip-me-Whop-me Street at Mrs. Cresswell's old Flagellites Club." Aurelia raised her eyes. "Surely in such a sweet old house it would feel almost vulgar to be alive!
~ Ronald Firbank
All terrific but the people. THE PEOPLE. Everyone looks so exalted, or so wretched, or so spiffy, so funny, so splendid. If you are ever bored or blue, stand on the street corner for half an hour.
~ Maira Kalman
Quauhnahuac was like the times in this respect, wherever you turned the abyss was waiting for you round the corner.
~ Malcolm Lowry
I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.
~ Anais Nin
I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
~ Samuel Johnson
Morgan sighed. I, she announced, am so pathetic. You are not, I said. I am. She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to corner. Do you know how many times I've brought in devilled eggs? This is, like, the only time I haven't been sobbing and that's only 'cause I cried all night. And Norman, she said, her voice rising to a wail, sweet Norman, always just acts so surprised to see the eggs, and pleased, and he never, once, has ever acted like he knew what they meant.
~ Sarah Dessen
It wasn't morning. The room was dark, with the moon big and yellow and hanging just where I'd left it in the corner of the window.
~ Sarah Dessen
With the exception of a general panic such as occurred in 1929, a corner is the most drastic and spectacular of all developments that can occur in the stock market, and more than once in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, corners had threatened to wreck the national economy.
~ John Brooks
And rightly. Isn't there something to be researched, in every corner of God's creation? Isn't that what you've found, miss, in your travels?
~ Elif Batuman