“I haven't always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.” GuyWalksRoomsAttentionHavensCorners Author:Josh Turner
“Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.” FeelsWritingYearsLongWhiteWalksRoomsPartyTeamBuildingExerciseRegardWineDrinkingFollowingCornersCorporationsBottlesDesksEmbarrassmentTeam BuildingShoutingLong WalksChristmas PartyWhite Wine Author:Will Self
“But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth and water, that last fragment will be saved, held in some corner of someone's mind; or maybe all they want is a chance to dump it pulsing and bloody into someone else's hands, so it won't weigh them down on the journey. They want to leave their stories behind. No one in all the world knows that better than I do.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantMindStoriesHandsEarthLastsWaterChanceWalksBehindsKnow HowJourneyReadyEdgesCornersSavedBloodyFragmentsDump Author:Tana French
“All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.” GirlWalksBoysStreetsExpressionCornersDressed UpBoogie Author:Van Morrison
“If you take a walk around Ouagadougou and make a list of the mansions you see, you will note that they belong to just a minority. How many of you who have been assigned to Ouagadougou from the farthest corners of the country have had to move every night because you've been thrown out of the house you have rented? To those who have acquired houses and land through corruption we say: start to tremble. If you have stolen, tremble, because we will come after you” IfsHas BeensCountryMovingNightHouseWalksLandNotesCorruptionCornersListsThrownMinoritiesEvery NightStolenMansions Book:Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87 Source: Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87
“Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot.” WantTryingIdeasChoicesLeftHoursDecisionWalksFeetOffersOrdinaryCornersInvisibleWakingOverlookedOur ChoicesOpulenceActual Life Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I was extremely fortunate to live around the corner from a recording studio and to be chosen to have a paper route to make enough money to pay for the music lessons. I was one of the chosen few to have a job and to walk through the curtain at Stax Records was just an amazing thing for me to do at age 14.” EnoughAgeJobsWalksPayRecordsLessonsPaperStudiosCornersChosenFortunateRoutesCurtainsAmazing ThingsAround The CornerRecording StudioMusic Lessons Author:Booker T. Jones
“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