“That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.” HandsPiecesFourCuttingRoundsCornersNonsensePassagesSublimeRidiculeFiery Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Vaudeville could not vouch for the honesty, the integrity, or the mentality of the individuals who collectively made up the horde the medium embraced. All the human race demands of its members is that they be born. That is all vaudeville demanded. You just had to be born. You could be ignorant and be a star. You could be a moron and be wealthy. The elements that went to make up vaudeville were combed from the jungles, the four corners of the world, the intelligentsia and the subnormal.” WorldHumansMadeIndividualStarsBornRaceFourHonestyIntegrityDemandMembersElementsCornersIgnorantMediumsHuman RaceWealthyMentalityJungleMoronHordeCorners Of The WorldVaudeville Author:Fred Allen
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.” WritingHumansStillsPlaySeemsRememberSufferingHouseHuman BeingsFictionFourMiddleMaterialsCreaturesEdgesCornersInstanceAttachmentTornSpidersHookedMaterial ThingsSpunShakespeare's Plays Author:Virginia Woolf
“Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.” ArtEyeDifficultFourPaintingArt IsDifficultyCornersBackgroundsDifficult Things Book:Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated
“We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.” EarthNationsFourViolenceCornersDefenseGreat Nations Author:George W. Bush
“Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.” MayLightLiteratureFourCornersCobwebs Author:Nellie L. McClung
“My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.” ArtSoulFourArt IsSalvationEdgesCornersTeethMy SoulNailsCanvasCopperTimber Author:Keariene Muizz
“Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.” WantYearsTwoBookReasonAmericaThreeTermClassFourTeachingLandMiddleMarkTwentiesAimCriticsPassionateDetailsCornersDecadesSoccerExcellentLeagueWheelsMiddle ClassLastingFour YearsGraduatesSheepVividIvyAmerican LifeWeirdnessYaleColumbiaEntiretyIndictmentIvy LeagueStrikersUpper Middle ClassMiddle Class Life Author:Dwight Garner
“It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.” WorldFourSeaSouthCornersMissionsSupremeJapanAsiaCorners Of The World Author:Sadao Araki
“China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelts proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.” FightingNationsPresidentFourStonesIndependenceCornersChinaLiberationOppressedCharterProclamationPresident Roosevelt Author:Chiang Kai-shek
“You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.” PeopleWayFeelsSaidHelpingEyeFallRealizingFourStreetsCarToughIllnessCornersMy WayHelp MeSlipsTough TimesSlipperyKnocked Down Author:Lou Gehrig
“Why is it that all battles are fought in the middle of the night, in downpouring rain, and at the corners of four different maps?” DifferentNightFourMiddleBattleRainCornersMapsMiddle Of The Night Author:George S. Patton
“We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.” PeopleWalksPleasureFourCarTelevisionWalkingAverageCornersGuidesBlockExceptionBottlesTrendsBusinessmanRecreationHousewifeAppointmentsAround The CornerAspirinFunny PeopleOutdoor Recreation Author:Stewart Udall