“I kind of miss that "becoming" stage, as most times you really don't know what's around the corner. Now, of course, I've kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don't know what the voice is saying, or even what language it's in.” KnowsKindStillsCoursesLanguageVoiceAnswersDoorsHeardStageMissingBecomingCornersNeverthelessAround The Corner Author:David Bowie
“I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.” HomeTakenCarMissingCornersLapMissing YouCrippledQualifying Author:Bobby Rahal
“Am I missing something because of my lack of education? Being an intellectual - I'm not. So I hire him as a corner man, like a boxer; he watches me and tells me what I do wrong before I go in for the next round. Barry thought he was going to write what became Executioner's Song, and I told him he wasn't going to. And Barry's closest friend was Joan Didion.” MenWritingSongNextWatchesMissingIntellectualRoundsCornersClosestBoxersWatch MeExecutionersClosest FriendsMissing SomethingLack Of Education Author:Lawrence Schiller
“Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare a single Norfolk church. When a church has been pulled down the country seems empty or is like a necklace with a jewel missing.” Has BeensCountrySeemsChurchMissingEmptyRoundsCornersHorizonTowersSparesJewelsLanesNecklacesNorfolk Author:John Betjeman
“I hate it [driving] more than anything in the whole world. I'm just an awful, awful driver. I get lost, I hit things (parked cars, one moving car, a pole in my parking garage). Just when I think I got everything under control, I'll miss seeing something out of the corner of my mirror.” ThinkingWorldWholeMovingHateLostSeeingCarMissingI HateMirrorsCornersDrivingWhole WorldAwfulDriversGarageParking Author:Rachael Leigh Cook
“If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.” PeopleIfsAbleCitiesTalkingMissingNew YorkMeetingsCornersHanging Out Author:Grace Paley
“I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.” HardRememberThreeDifficultHoursChurchRightsStreetsMissingWorkersCornersTraumaCivil RightsBaptistsMississippiBirmingham Author:John Lewis
“I don't think anything can substitute long talks, and long talks are somehow never as easy to schedule again as they were in school, when most people - at least in my little socioeconomic corner of the world - live not with their families or sexual partners, but with same-sex friends. I really miss that from college. I never really thought at the time about how things would never be that way again.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayLittlesLongSchoolSexEasyMissingCollegeCornersPartnersSubstitutesSchedulesCorners Of The World Author:Elif Batuman