Corners Quotes - Page 39

• Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.

  Jay-Z

  Rocks, Tailored Suits, Used

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• People are like houses. They could open their doors. You could walk through their rooms and touch the objects hidden in their corners. But something--the structure, the wiring, the invisible mechanism that kept the whole thing standing--remai ned invisible, suggested only by the fact of its existing at all.

  Lauren Oliver

  Doors, People, House

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• I know that relationships can be a winding, sometimes unpredictable road... it just seems to me that, if you ever find yourself backed into a corner, and the only way out is a box, that you have sex in, on stage, on live TV... something has gone terribly wrong.

  Matt Walsh

  Sex, Finding Yourself, Gone

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• The Tiger's Curse Series has everything my heart could desire in a fantasy: exotic locations, two dashing princes, good vs. evil, the promise of danger and adventure lurking around every corner—and did I mention two dashing princes? Warning: these books may cause you to forget anything else exists until you've turned the last enthralling page. And then you'll want to start all over again!

  Bree Despain

  Book, Heart, Adventure

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• If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that if only you could peer round the corner there might be an easy solution. There is nothing like having somebody else beside you, because he can usually peer round the corner.

  Michael Atiyah

  Peers, Might, Problem

  Michael Atiyah (1988). “Collected Works: Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers”, p.214, Oxford University Press

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• There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'

  Michael Shannon

  Secret, Routine, Empires

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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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• I'd rather dance in a corner than dance in a circle.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Circles

  "The Man with No Bones" by Amanda Dobbins, www.gq.com. October 24, 2011.

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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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• The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.

  Taylor Swift

  Waiting, Lessons, Life Is

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• I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

  Jolene Blalock

  Children, Kids, Lunch

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• You know there's always that kid in your class — and every class has one — the kid who draws all the time and is really good? That was not me. I was a lousy draftsman. But as soon as I figured out that I could make things come alive, like using the corners of my math book to make flipbooks, I was hooked.

  Pete Docter

  Book, Kids, Math

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• I'm afraid if I don't keep moving, they're going to catch me ... I am 81 years old and I want to see what's around the corner, and I don't see any reason in the world not to keep working. But I am starting to value my down time a great deal because I am realizing there might be other things to do that I am overlooking.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Moving, Years, World

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• Had a lot of moments that didn't last forever, now you're in the corner tryin' to put it together - how to love.

  Lil Wayne

  Forever, Together, Lasts

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• I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.

  Twiggy

  Knowing, Serendipity, Might

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• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Children, Danger, Stairs

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• It seems like every new corner we turn, the Rockefellers are already there. And in some cases, they have been there for a long, long time.

  William H. Gates, Sr.

  Long, Cases, Turns

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• I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.

  Doc Brown

  Littles, Plutonium, My Future

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• Don't ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than a 100 years safe in the corner.

  Jim Rohn

  Adventure, Years, Safe

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• Chavez will hit the canvas. He will be sitting in his corner, or with the doctor or referee stopping the fight. There's no other outcome.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighting, Doctors

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• If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Justice, Would Be, Spiders

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Thinking, Laughing, Soul

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• My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.

  Paul Klee

  Real, Writing, Heart

  Paul Klee (2015). “Paul Klee”, p.18, Parkstone International

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• When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us.

  Lena Dunham

  Reading, Space, Secret

  Interview with Judy Blume, www.believermag.com. January 2014.

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