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My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -In Corners - till a DayThe Owner passed - identified -And carried Me away -" -- Emily Dickinson
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors. -- John Turturro
History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice. -- Tracy K. Smith
My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away - -- Emily Dickinson
Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something unknown in the shape of this room. Where I am King of Corners. -- Michael Ondaatje
All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings. -- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury
Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us. -- Vic Morrow
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. -- Thornton Wilder
Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I know these mountains, rivers, mesas and canyons well, so it's been natural for me to draw on my own personal experiences here. -- Will Hobbs
I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners. -- Vincent Van Gogh
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. -- Antoni Gaudi
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. -- Salman Rushdie
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. -- Saint Augustine
My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in. -- Denis Leary
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. -- Virginia Woolf
Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs. -- Donald Rumsfeld
I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love. -- Orhan Pamuk
A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. -- Julien Green
Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind. -- Meg Rosoff
Remember, 'governance' is a big word that includes human rights, freedom of speech, economic transactions on a worldwide basis - it touches everything. It's everywhere, and that's why Internet governance is Topic A in many corners. -- Vint Cerf
The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light. -- Bill Hicks
It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something. -- John Lewis
America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies. -- Kenny Marchant
When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us. -- Dorothy Day
The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. -- L. Neil Smith
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. -- Jon Ronson
It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater. -- Teresa of Ávila
Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble. -- Bobby Orr
As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners. -- Pippa Middleton
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when I went to work with him. I had a talent for knocking over paint and painting myself into corners. I also realized fairly quickly that painting bored me. -- Markus Zusak
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. -- Rudyard Kipling
On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network. -- Ze Frank
To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at 200mph, the noise and the vibrations are incredible. The G-force when you take big corners is like someone trying to rip your head off. You hit the brakes, and it feels as if the skin is being pulled off your body. -- Jenson Button
The traditional family table is round. No corners. No sides. No head. No tail. Everything is smooth. The food is in the center, and each family member reaches over the same distance. Someone you love is next to you on each side, and no one is last or at the end. The person farthest away from you is also the person facing you. -- Deng Ming-Dao
The pure Deity is in all places and all corners, and present every where all over: the birth of the holy Trinity in one essence is every where: and the angelical world reacheth to every part, wherever you can think, even in the midst of the earth, stones, and rocks: as also hell and the kingdom of God's wrath is every where all over. -- Jakob Bohme
The perfect square lacks corners. -- Laozi
The world is full of unused corners. -- Brenna Yovanoff
Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate. -- Bruce Oldfield
Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries. -- Boris Beizer
Went to the corner shop - bought 4 corners. -- Tommy Cooper
Good days, they come around the oddest corners. -- Colum McCann
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. -- Mitch Albom
Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that -- Rumi
Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept. -- Matsuo Basho
I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world. -- Yuri Milner
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. -- Mignon McLaughlin
At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels. -- John Donne
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If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles. -- Grant Stoelwinder
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs. -- Tamsin Egerton
Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners -- Max Perutz
I think you know, Matthew. You have many corners in your heart. -- Catherine Anderson
Your day will go the way the corners of your mouth turn. -- Winston Churchill
The great square has no corners and the great implement completes nothing. -- Joshua L. Goldberg
The writer of good will carries a lamp to illuminate the dark corners. -- Isabel Allende
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper. -- Arthur Machen
Even if you have constrained resources, don't cut corners. People will feel it. -- Tony Fadell
The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners... -- Dave Evans
Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners. -- Rosamunde Pilcher
I didn't cut no corners, I just gave it my heart and soul. -- Styles P
All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners. -- Rumi
On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut. -- Neal A. Maxwell
We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners. -- Salman Rushdie
Your day usually follows the direction of the corners of your mouth. So SMILE. -- Gregory Dickow
Wildflower corners are easy to maintain, but once gone, they are hard to rebuild. -- Aldo Leopold
Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them. -- William Shakespeare
The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners. -- Jill Tarter
The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners. -- Dave Eggers
In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners. -- Robert Genn
What curious little corners of folly are to be found in even the sanest brain! -- Marie of Romania
I have been to the darkest corners of government, and what they fear is light. -- Edward Snowden
it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams -- Virginia Woolf
I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe. -- Ann M. Martin
I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read. -- Robert Littell
Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings. -- Mason Cooley
Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world. -- JJ Feild
Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to. -- Lesley Garrett
Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners. -- Roy Chapman Andrews
I'm always worried that lipstick is on my teeth or caked in the corners of my mouth. -- Chyler Leigh
Writing:It starts at the keyboard,and it ends at the far corners of the universe. --Paako -- Vincent Lowry
When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners -- George Karl
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth. -- Natalie Goldberg
I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve. -- Big Boi
It's become relatively commonplace to find corners of Africa that have good cell coverage but no electrical power. -- Ethan Zuckerman
If you use a positive word, the corners of your lips go upward and it makes you smile. -- Maxine Powell
The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering. -- Oscar Wilde
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We don't have spittoons on street corners any more. It's no longer acceptable to spit on the street. -- Harvey V. Fineberg
Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision. -- Emily Yoffe
I dream of a Digital India where quality education reaches the most inaccessible corners driven by Digital Learning. -- Narendra Modi
I don't score highlight reel goals. They come from work, from getting into the corners, getting a little dirty.? -- Zach Parise
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it. -- Bernard Berenson
We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit. -- Robert Greenwald
love being such, or such,the normal corners of your heartwill never guess how muchmy wonderful jealousy is dark -- e. e. cummings
If I could make a career out of drawing little girls hiding in corners, I would do really well. -- Lynne Rae Perkins
I pay a living wage, I believe in healthcare, I declare all my income, and I don't cut corners. -- Tom Douglas
Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners. -- Nellie L. McClung
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry. -- Mark Strand
We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation. -- George W. Bush
Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn. -- Milton Avery
Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves. -- H. E. Bates
It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world. -- Sadao Araki
It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws. -- Stephen Crane
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. -- Antoni Gaudi
I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes. -- Deborah Kerr
I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls. -- Geoffrey Rush
The sun appears in one of the upper corners of the rectangle, on the left of anyone looking at the picture. -- Jose Saramago
Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell! -- Haruki Murakami
No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries. -- Dierks Bentley
Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place. -- Michael Ondaatje
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. -- Mitch Albom
There is a way to master silence Control its curves, inhabit its dark corners And listen to the hiss of time outside -- Paul Bowles
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. -- Saint Augustine
You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game. -- Diego Simeone

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