Around The Corner Quotes - Page 3

• I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

  Rebecca Ferguson

  Lying, Littles, Minutes

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• 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.

  Pam Grier

  Art, Waiting, Entertainment

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• I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros; perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified.

  Tom Robbins

  Children, Hero, Garden

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.30, Bantam

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• My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.

  Laurie Notaro

  Violence, My Family, Needed

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• You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.

  Ray Dolby

  Persistence, Might, Firsts

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• Love - not dim and blind but so far-seeing that it can glimpse around corners, around bends and twists and illusion; instead of overlooking faults love sees through them to the secret inside.

  Vera Nazarian

  True Love, Secret, Twists

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• I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lying, Believe, Emotional

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

  Michael Fassbender

  Flavor Of The Month, Three, Want

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• Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.

  Robert De Niro

  Heat, Walks, Flats

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• If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.

  Beth Moore

  Jesus, Giving, Tasks

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• He's not here." "Not here like he just popped around the corner to the bodega for a six-pack of Diet Coke and a box of Krispy Kremes, or not here like.

  Cassandra Clare

  Krispy Kreme, Coke, Six Packs

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.969, Simon and Schuster

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• We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be patient with necessarily slow and groping advance on the road forward, and to be ready for each step ahead as it become practicable. We are asked to equip ourselves with courage, hope, readiness for hard work, and to cherish large and generous ideals.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Believe, Hard Work, Perfect

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• My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Eye, Light, Pathways

  "QVC Artist: The Movie" by Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. November 19, 2008.

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• If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Giving Up, Self, Helping

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• I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I'm not a fabulist. I'm more of a reporter.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Years, Two

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Everybody wants to play in the playoffs. You don't know how good the good times were until you hit the bad times. But sometimes success is just around the corner.

  Trevor Linden

  Play, Want, Good Times

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• I went around the corner to motion pictures.

  Jerry Reed

  Motion Pictures, Corners

  "Jerry Reed dies - country singer, movie actor" by John Gerome, www.sfgate.com. September 3, 2008.

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• Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Adventure, World, Stills

  Roy Chapman Andrews (2013). “Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure”, p.248, Read Books Ltd

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• In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

  Rachel Maddow

  Fire, Safety, Massachusetts

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• 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.

  Maureen Forrester

  Mother, Waiting, Four

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• 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.

  David Bowie

  Voice, Doors, Missing

  "Rock's Heathen Speaks". Livewire Interview, www.concertlivewire.com. June 16, 2002.

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• I've always had this deep-down conviction that I'm not like everybody else, and there's an amazingly exciting new life waiting for me just around the corner.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Waiting, New Life, Conviction

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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

  Bob Dylan

  Politics, Corners, Good Will

  Song: Jokerman, Album: Infidels

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

  Tupac Shakur

  Suicide, Corners

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• I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.

  David Archuleta

  Life, Believe, Thinking

  David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.207, Penguin

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