Corridors Quotes - Page 6

• There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.

  Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

  Love, Three, Slides

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• Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It reflects what America looks like.

  Bob Buckhorn

  America, Marketing, Looks

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• Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one...And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.

  Michael Moorcock

  Past, Men, Secret

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric The Stealer of Souls”, p.385, Del Rey

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• He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him with anguish. Ender Wiggin was not larger than life, Bean knew. He was exactly life-sized, and so his larger-than-life burden was too much for him. And yet he was bearing it. So far.

  Orson Scott Card

  Soldier, Too Much, Larger Than Life

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.349, Macmillan

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• Tessa was only half way down the corridor when they caught up to her -Will and Jem, walking on either side of her. "you didn't really think we weren't going to come along, did you?" Will asked, raising his hand and letting his witchlight fare up between his fingers, lighting the corridor to daylight brightness. Charlotte, hurrying along ahead of them, turned and frowned, but said nothing. "I know you can't leave anything well alone," Tessa replied, looking straight ahead. "But I though better of Jem." "Where Will goes, I go," Jem said good-naturedly. "And besides, I'm as curious as he is.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Hands, Half

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• Mr. Branwell and Mr. Carstairs seem to have no problem cleaning their boots,” Sophie said, looking darkly from Will to Tessa. “Perhaps you could learn from their example.” “Perhaps,” said Will. “But I doubt it.” Sophie scowled, and started off along the corridor again, her shoulders tightly set with indignation. Tessa looked at Will in amazement. “What was that?” Will shrugged lazily. “Sophie enjoys pretending she doesn’t like me.” “Doesn’t like you? She hates you!

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Doubt, Example

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• ...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

  Eric Metaxas

  Christian, Running, Order

  Eric Metaxas (2011). “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy”, p.136, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should go to my friends; but instead I slipped into the corridors I hadn't used in months, pushed my way through cobwebs and darkness, trying to walk away from the tears that burned hot down my cheeks, because maybe I didn't want to admit weakness; maybe I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief. Or maybe crying is like everything else we do—it's best if you don't get caught.

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Grief, Long

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• Near the end I asked him one night in the hospital corridor what he thought was happening, and he said, "Tell her everything you haven't said," and I smiled with relief. "There's nothing," I said. "I've already told her everything.

  Gail Caldwell

  Night, Relief, Ends

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• I always knew it was ill-fated, but he truly believed I would be his bride. I guess I'd never realized that before. He had taken my mucker hand and looked at my mottled face and believed we would wed. And he hadn't seemed sorry. In fact, he'd swooped me up in a corridor and kissed me. That set me to crying.

  Shannon Hale

  Sorry, Taken, Hands

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• We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

  Thomas Harris

  Heart, Short Notice, Cafes

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Tess?” A soft voice at the door; she looked up and saw Will there, silhouetted in the light from the corridor.

  Cassandra Clare

  Light, Doors, Voice

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.509, Simon and Schuster

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• This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.

  Mark Bostridge

  Dark, Achievement, Creative

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• Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the rockets merges now with the creak of the wind-taut rigging. For somewhere in the world today, still unconscious of his destiny, walks the boy who will be the first Odysseus of the Age of Space.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Future, Destiny, Boys

  Arthur C. Clarke (2011). “By Space Possessed”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour. Gabriel threw me a disapproving look. I waited for him to get my joke, but his eyes remained serious. I sighed. Much as I loved him, Gabriel could be totally lacking in any sense of humor.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Eye, Lunch, Serious

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Halo: Number 1 in series”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.

  Thomas Harris

  Wrestling, Dark, Echoes

  Thomas Harris (2007). “Hannibal Rising”, Dell

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• The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will be joyful.' And we say, until you are joyful, you will not get that. You must start with the decision-with the determination-with the insistence that, 'I will not settle for less than feeling good.'

  Esther Hicks

  Happiness, Determination, Feel Good

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• A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside it altered by being viewed from these windows.

  Alice Munro

  House, Stories, World

  "Selected Stories, 1968-1994". Book by Alice Munro, 1996.

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• I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Memories, Winter

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.61, Penguin

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• Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mind, Assonance, Alliteration

  Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.7, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

  John Norquist

  Cities, People, Evening

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• And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same.

  J. K. Rowling

  Suits Of Armor, Castles, Done

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• He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it, which was true.

  Douglas Adams

  Way, Ifs

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.453, Del Rey

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• The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of meaning amid leagues of cacophony and incoherence, reading the history of the past and of the future, collecting our thoughts and collecting the thoughts of others, and every so often glimpsing mirrors, in which we may recognize creatures of the information.

  James Gleick

  Reading, Past, Mirrors

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• You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Lying, Book, Stones

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.253, Vintage

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