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“Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.”

People Country Cities Corners Manifestation Righteousness Distrust Cleverness

Author:Edward Hoagland

“I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in the rain under the gaslamps, just as the sight of monks in their robes and girdles touches some ascetic, hidden corner of my soul.”

Heart Soul My Heart Walking Rain Sight Corners My Soul Pounds Monk Prostitution Robes Girdles Walking In The Rain

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.”

Humans Order Universe Understanding Race Progress Corners Human Race Understanding The Universe

Author:Stephen Hawking

“The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.”

Ifs Come Up Corners Wipe Aggressors Panthers

Author:Huey Newton

“Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.”

People Walks Television Cameras Corners Dialogue Halls Prisoner Steady

Author:David Chase

“Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.”

Home Earth Jobs Four Corners Coming Home

Author:Natalie Goldberg

“My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.”

Ifs Stills Character Turns Corners Versions What If Around The Corner Spleen

Author:Jack Dee

“To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.”

Acting Streets Corners Street Corners Mime Troupe

Author:Kelly McGillis

“People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.”

People Thinking Want Walks Cost Shapes Corners Stores Staying Vegetables Lots Of Money Cheaper Fast Food

Author:Florence Griffith Joyner

“Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but a single time on some happy day, yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling that we have just rubbed elbows with happiness.”

Heart Soul Ends Sometimes Feelings Body Happiness Desire Turns Flower Leaving Forgotten Corners Forests Our Thoughts Elbows Orchard Happy Day Soul And Body

Author:Guy de Maupassant

“Place yourself among those who carry on their lives with passion, and true learning will take place, no matter how humble or exalted the setting. But no matter what path you follow, do not be ashamed of your learning. In some corner of your life, you know more about something than anyone else on earth. The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.”

Knows Matter Earth Passion Learning Path Share No Matter What Corners Humble Setting Settings Ashamed Exalted Live With Passion

Author:Kent Nerburn

“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.”

Way Hard Home Funny Streets Hard Work Couple Scene Humorous Studios Corners My Way France Paris Frustrating Way Home Street Corners

Author:Bob Hope

“I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.”

Ifs Would Be Jobs Work Chance Corners Glad Desert Quarters Solitary Thankless

Author:John Buchan

“Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a whole order of plants or birds. Let us hit this glass a blow in such a manner as but to crack it up. The sectors circumscribed by cracks following the first blow may here be understood to represent families. Continuing, we may crack the glass into genera, species and subspecies to the point of finally having the upper right hand corner a piece about 4 inches square representing a sub-species.”

Firsts May Whole Hands Science Order Pieces Bird Understood Tables Plant Species Glasses Blow Following Corners Cracks Squares Inches Continuing Representing

Author:Leon Croizat

“It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.”

Littles Enough Action Clear Creation Ideals Corners Translate

Author:Toyohiko Kagawa

“If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner, don't you believe her, don't have anything to do with her, do not go with her into the cab. It is the White Slave Traffic.”

Ifs Believe Lying White Advice Slave Rounds Dear Come Up Corners Traffic Up To You Mama Cab Pavement

Author:Stevie Smith

“I am fascinated by revolution. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed, am obsessed by the romanticism... . Revolution surges, flashes, thunders in almost every corner of the earth... . Brothers and sisters, keep fanning the flames of the leaping fire. ... Let us become logs to feed the flames of revolution.”

Earth Fire Brother Revolution Corners Flames Obsessed Fascinated Flash Brothers And Sisters Thunder Romanticism

Author:Sukarno

“I have 800 books of just Samuel Beckett's work, tons of his correspondence, personal letters that he wrote. I have copies of plays he used when he directed, so all of his handwritten notes are in the corners of the page.”

Book Play Used Pages Letters Notes Corners Copies Correspondence Beckett Handwritten Notes

Author:John Larroquette

“Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.”

Feels I Can Hate Courses Walks I Hate Rounds Corners London

Author:Graham Swift

“I know something great will come around the corner, and that's what I'll be doing next.”

Knows Next Corners Around The Corner

Author:Dermot Mulroney

“I definitely feel I do have God in my corner.”

Feels Corners

Author:Chuck Norris

“If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.”

Ifs Years Long Stills Enough Three Cities Corners Chicago Three Years Junction

Author:Glen Hansard

“There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.”

Feels Looks Worst Industry Behavior Evidence Capitalism Rewards Corners Behave Prime Banking Ruthless Psychopathic

Author:Jon Ronson

“Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.”

Feels Kind Littles Dream Happens Kids Wish Can Do Streets Television Paper Towns Corners Things Happen Papers Kansas Harlem Street Corners Little Towns

Author:James Brolin

“A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.”

People Thinking Sports Morning Car Six Corners Fighter Muscles Necks Formulas Pilots Pulling Formula One Fighter Pilot

Author:Jenson Button

“When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner.”

Wells Position Corners

Author:Jean Alesi

“I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.”

Thinking Corners Bars Restaurants Pockets Manhattan Nightclubs

Author:Julian Casablancas

“I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.”

Knows Kind Life Is Corners Great Things Spoiled Around The Corner

Author:Stockard Channing

“I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Actors Fun Successful One Thing Paint Corners

Author:Peter Dinklage

“I had the chance to visit all 56 counties in Montana in my pickup. You can put Washington, D.C., in one corner of our state and put Chicago in the other corner, and that's the size of my congressional district.”

States Chance Size Corners Chicago County Montana Pickups

Author:Steve Daines

“I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.”

People Thinking Knows Want Years Running Four Streets Office Corners Candidates Four Years San Francisco Mayors Talk To Me Credible Street Corners

Author:Matt Gonzalez

“My favorite sports movies, I like 'Remember the Titans' and 'Hoosiers' Jimmy Chitwood, from the corner.”

Remember Sports My Favorite Corners Jimmy Titans Favorite Sports Sports Movie Hoosiers

Author:Shaun Alexander

“No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.”

Heart Artist Corners Boundaries No Boundaries

Author:Dierks Bentley

“Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast.”

Art Culture Courses Watches Technology Cutting Edges Corners Profession These Days Toasts Popular Culture Cutting Edge

Author:Tom Freston

“Make me wanna kill myself, but I see death around the corner.”

Suicide Corners Around The Corner

Author:Tupac Shakur

“Go down to the corner store and beat the Jap up, clean all the crap up.”

Beats Racism Clean Corners Stores Crap

Author:Ice Cube

“Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.”

People Mind Mean Science Experience Corners Convinced Obscure Clearing Lecturing

Author:Thomas Huxley

“Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.”

Thinking Looks Eye Law Order Girl Brother Standing Corners Jail

Author:Dean Martin

“And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!”

“Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?”

Politics Corners Good Will Around The Corner

Author:Bob Dylan

“By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line.”

Ends Mother Waiting Lines Walks Four Corners Locals Around The Corner

Author:Maureen Forrester

“And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.”

Art I Can Waiting Entertainment Corners Curious Exploration Around The Corner

Author:Pam Grier

“We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.”

Knows Cutting Risk Safety Profit Corners Unconcerned

Author:Robert Greenwald

“I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.”

People Writing I Can Can Do Hours Groups Couple Walking Computer Areas Corners Coffee Noise Seats Shops Plugs Cafes Coffee Shop

Author:Bong Joon-ho

“I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.”

Knows Trying Years Firsts Looks Has Beens Ends Whole Enjoy One Day Corners Whole Life Racing Take Time

Author:Tom Kristensen

“The trick at Le Mans is to get the car 'in the window.' Everything is critical: the tyre pressure, the brake temperature, and that means you have to push the car a lot to get it into the window - it's about getting everything to work right and getting the car to flow through the corners.”

Mean Car Flow Window Pressure Corners Critical Tricks Temperature Brake Tyres

Author:Tom Kristensen

“Standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and I'm quite sure I'm in the wrong song.”

Song Honesty Corners Arizona

Author:Tori Amos

“A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.”

Want Mind Philosophy Wise Corners Wander Be Here Now

Author:George Harrison

“No one can tell what the future holds, you're backs to the corner, you make the choice of how it goes.”

Philosophy Choices Corners

Author:Kenny Loggins

“I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.”

Eye Beautiful Corners Cows Pathetic Jersey

Author:Deborah Kerr

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