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“You'd corner me in your conformity but even in dormancy i'm sleeping with enormity, stretching the belly of the earth & everything i was born to be.”

“Whenever you are given two choices, look out for the third option.”

Life Inspirational Choices Fate Options Cornered

Author:Sara Arinto

“Only when man cornered, potential forced to appear.”

Natural Human Potential Cornered Appear Forced

Book:Master of Stupidity

Source: Master of Stupidity

“When I felt cornered in my life and wrought with crisis and turmoil, I wondered why friends stayed silent.”

Turmoil Gandolfo Quotes Rj Intindola Quotes Quotes By Rj Intindola Cornered Crisis And Turmoil Silent Friends

Author:RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1983

“I was a wolf. And I bit when cornered.”

Sarah J Maas Feyre Feyre Archeron A Court Of Mist And Fury Wolf Cornered Bit

Book:A Court of Mist and Fury

Source: A Court of Mist and Fury

“It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'”

Character Hate Reading I Hate Green Scripts Description Jamie Cornered Offbeat

Author:Breckin Meyer

“Among wolves, no matter how sick, no matter how cornered, no matter how alone, afraid or weakened, the wolf will continue.She will lope even with a broken leg. She will strenuously outwait, outwit, outrun and outlast whatever is bedeviling her. She will put her all into taking breath after breath. The hallmark of the wild nature is that it goes on.”

Matter Broken Goes On Sick Breaths Legs Hallmark Outrun The Wild Nature Cornered Broken Leg

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, 'Kid, you're going to make a mint in television movies.' He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that market. They were 20-day projects.”

Made Said Kids Decision Cities Television Projects Agents California Mint Cornered Northern California

Author:Mare Winningham

“When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.”

Two Moving Fighting Can Do Two Things Cornered

Author:Josh Fox

“I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Hands Common Computer Stuck Cornered

Author:David Nicholls

“But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.”

Knows Self Body Eye Running Failing Hair Arms Skins Mirrors Aging Surface Flesh Fats Spots Necks Pens Gray Weary Exhausted Veins Rope Sleeves Wrinkles Liver Hush Notches Freckles Cornered

Author:William H. Gass

“I love to sing. I don't think it's strange for singers to act, or painters to sculpt. I don't want to ever feel like I'm cornered into one expression of creativity because I'm successful at making films or being an actor. I guess it's best to not paint yourself into that corner.”

Thinking Want Feels Film Actors Creativity Successful Strange Expression Paint Corners Singers Painter Cornered

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“I want my team to play like a cornered tiger...when it's said it's most dangerous”

Want Said Play Team Dangerous Tigers Cornered

Author:Imran Khan

“Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.”

Writing Long Book Reading Kings Cornered

Author:Mary Garden

“Well, part of it is the general fascination with the Amish. It's an extremely popular genre and Beverly Lewis just happens to have the market cornered. She is the bestselling author in this genre. We had actually optioned another one of her Amish books, The Redemption of Sarah Cain. We retitled it Saving Sarah Cain and it did extremely well for Lifetime so we pursued more of her novels.”

Wells Book Happens Novel Lifetime Redemption Saving Genre Fascination Pursued Cain Amish Cornered

Author:Michael Landon, Jr.

“Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.”

Men Dangerous Driving Rats Desperation Cornered

Book:Churchill: The Power of Words

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“I always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished for the next one in order not to get too cornered and depressed about it.”

Want Writing Stories Order Three Next Four Projects Unfinished Dump The Next One Cornered

Author:Pawel Pawlikowski

“An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.”

World May Persons Has Beens Artist Common Four Remains Common Sense Angle Triangles Cornered

Author:Soseki Natsume

“Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.”

“I mean, you can't have sex until you're married if you're Mormon. The first time I had sex, my parents found out. They were listening in on the phone while I was talking about sex to my girlfriend. They freaked out, man. They both cornered me in my bedroom.”

Ifs Men Firsts Mean Found Sex Parent Talking Listening Married First Time Phones Girlfriend Bedroom My Girlfriend Cornered

Author:Bert McCracken

“There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day.”

Bigs Animal Cornered

Author:Shane McCrae

“It's dangerous when music gets cornered by anything.”

Dangerous Cornered

Author:Justin Vernon

“One of the producers, Wonjo, was an amazing interpreter. I don't think we really knew how it was going to work at the beginning. Yet it was something that a couple of days into it seemed so seamless and it wasn't something that we noticed or thought about. A couple of times I cornered him and forced him to speak English but we didn't speak much English at all. That said, I don't think anything was ever lost in translation. It was all very easy.”

Thinking Said Lost Speak Easy Couple Producers Going To Work Translations Interpreter Speak English Seamless Cornered Lost In Translation

Author:Mia Wasikowska

“Who are you talking to right now? Who is it you think you see? Do you know how much I make a year? I mean, even if I told you, you wouldn't believe it. Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work? A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up. Disappears. It ceases to exist, without me.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Years Believe Mean Enough Bigs Happens Talking Know How Right Now Decided Disappear Cease Do You Know Insightful Belly Cornered

Author:Walter White

“The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.”

Ideas America Ridiculous Immigration Phenomenon Cornered

Author:Junot Diaz

“In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more interesting discussion. If history is any guide, it's never a good idea to assume that a scientiﬁc problem is cornered.”

Ifs Ideas Problem Interesting Views Argument Function Assuming Guides Discussion Good Ideas Cornered Parsimony

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying Mean Ideas States Political Sides Red Blue Angle Both Sides Purple Great Idea Mean People Aisle Cornered Apolitical

Author:Brad Thor

“Now, this is where I draw the line! It's bad enough everybody in town's going to be thinkin' I'm sleeping with a depressed, lice-ridden, hemorrhoidal foreigner who likes to be tied up and might be pregnant, although-since she's just about cornered the market on condoms-I don't know how that could have happened. But I will not-you listen to me, Emma!-I absolutely will not have anybody thinkin' a woman of mine needs a vaginal moisturizer, do you hear me?”

Knows Needs Enough Might Lines Sleep Know How Happened Mines Draws Towns Likes Tied Pregnant Foreigners Listen To Me Emma Condom Tied Up Cornered Lice

Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.”

World Humans Night Dies Evil Strong Dark Groups Weak Fallen Hunts Prey Trembling Deer Vulture Cornered Hyenas

Book:In the Forests of the Night

Source: In the Forests of the Night

“For the first time all day I felt safe. Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe not so safe.”

Firsts Felt Dark Safe First Time Patches Tunnels Stalking Cornered Stalking Me

Book:Hush, Hush

Source: Hush, Hush

“I want blood! Two of Aksel’s dogs cornered me near Tondara. They shot me. Those bastards actually shot a hole in my stabilizer the size of Mirala…Aren’t you going to say something? (Syn) Were you hurt? (Nykyrian) No. (Syn) Then why are you having a fit? (Nykyrian) I don’t know, it just felt right. You see why I don’t like being sober? I overreact like an old woman. (He opened his flask, then slammed it down on Nykyrian’s desk.) Figures the damned thing would be empty. (Syn)”

Knows Want Two Would Be Felt Hurt Blood Dog Figures Fit Shots Empty Size Holes Desks Sober Old Woman Cornered Being Sober Flasks

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“You..." The centaur's eyes flared like a cornered animal's. "You should be dead.”

Should Eye Animal Cornered Centaurs

Author:Rick Riordan

“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”

Wanted Past Sleep Forget Forget The Past Forget Me Cornered

Book:Lady Oracle

Source: Lady Oracle

“Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.” “Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.”

People Said Voice Pieces Dangerous Yeah Tables Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide Cornered

Book:The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Fine. Whatever. I don’t. Nobody understands your pain, Mae. Because it is so unique! Nobody’s ever loved something so much they would do anything to save it, except for you, Mae. You cornered that market!”

Pain Fine Unique Mae Cornered

Author:Amanda Hocking

“Anyway, I was the one in real danger. I got cornered by a pack of wild sorority girls in the food court. Apparently it's mating season.”

Real Girl Danger Seasons Court Packs Mating Cornered Sorority

Book:Stray

Source: Stray

“[The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.] The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM! [The children lurch away and obey him.] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.”

Mean Children Has Beens Lasts Rooms Terrible Crosses Empty Doctors Angry Rose Glad Last Words Your Room Cornered

Author:Steven Moffat

“Zoe readied her arrows. Grover lifted his pipes. Thalia raised her shield and I noticed a tear running down her cheek. Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before.She had been cornered on Half- Blood Hill. She'd willingly given her life for her friends. But this time she couldn't save us.”

Running Given Half Happened Blood Tears Raised Hills Cheeks Arrows Shields Pipe Grover Cornered Thalia Grace

Book:The Titan's curse

Source: The Titan's curse

“It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”

Kind Choices Sooner Or Later Kinds Of Love Rigor Cornered

Book:And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

“A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is -- a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.”

Ifs Thinking Hate Peace Angry Oneself Deeper Harm Spite Bites Resentment Ubuntu Biting Peace Justice Cornered Rattlesnakes Harming Others

Author:E. Stanley Jones

“When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped to go rolling down.”

Ifs Men Art War Moving Fighting Energy Levels Four Stones Rounds Rolling Art Of War Slopes Standstill Cornered

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack

“As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.”

Years Said Two Jobs Fighting Week Mountain Two Years Als Bin Laden Al Qaeda Osama Bin Laden Afghan Cornered Warlords

Author:John F. Kerry

“Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.”

Persons Crime Capable Innocent Heartless Cornered Innocent Person

Book:Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel

Source: Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel

“I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.”

Thinking Self Shame Homosexual Loathing Self Loathing Cornered Morticians

Author:Michael C. Hall

“A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.”

Care Lasts Hate Fall Fear Sound Animal Dying Dog Shots Surrender Defiance Cornered

Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition

“What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?”

Funny Science Three Technology Math Statistics Algebra Cornered Exactly Is

Book:My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)

Source: My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)

“This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings Bryan and Carl Schurz. It is far more accurate and illuminating however, to view it as a three-cornered fight. The third group was a coalition of businessmen, intellectuals, and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would enter and dominate all underdeveloped areas of the world.”

“Things get very clear when you're cornered.”

Life Clear Cornered

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Four: Journey without Goal; The Lion's Roar; The Dawn of Tantra; An Interview with Cho gyam Trungpa

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Four: Journey without Goal; The Lion's Roar; The Dawn of Tantra; An Interview with Cho gyam Trungpa

“We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers of entertainment: a total war. It is necessary to prevent him from having a moment of peace, a quiet moment outside his barracks or even inside; we must attack him wherever he may be, make him feel like a cornered beast wherever he may move. Then his moral fiber shall begin to decline, but we shall notice how the signs of decadence begin to disappear.”

Feels May War Moments Home Happens Moving Moral Enemy Quiet Entertainment Corners Disappear Beast Decline Decadence Fiber Total War Cornered Quiet Moments Moral Fiber

Book:Guerrilla Warfare

Source: Guerrilla Warfare

“Heroes aren't born, they're cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.”

Found Born Hero Cornered

Author:James Belushi