Corner Of Quotes

#1. The avalanche of prefabbed, precooked, often portable food into every corner of American society represents the most dramatic nutritional shift in human history.

Melanie Warner

#2. In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

Shaun Hick

#3. Knock a man down, and you saw what he was made of. That man might run. If he didn't - if he stood back up with blood at the corner of his mouth and determination in his eyes - then you knew. That man was about to become truly dangerous.

Robert Jordan

#4. Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation

Vaddey Ratner

#5. so the knowledge of their presence remained, for the time being, strictly within the bounds of people's private thoughts, lying dormant in a corner of their minds like a secret language spoken only at home.

Orhan Pamuk

#6. Creativity is a massive and the sharpest voice that reaches every corner of the globe.

Euginia Herlihy

#7. Mrs. (Fanie Lou) Hamer, like her mother, also kept weapons nearby in case she needed them: 'I keep a shotgun in every corner of my bedroom & the first cracker even looks like he wants to throw some dynamite on my porch won't write his mama again.

Charles E. Cobb Jr.

#8. I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!

Warren Spector

#9. You are much larger than anything you encounter while you sleep. Everything that happens in dream takes place on a small stage in a corner of your mind.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#10. He had curled himself up into a minature sphere in the farthest corner of the box, a fuzzy softball that would have fit eaisly into the palm of my hand.

Gwen Cooper

#11. The two dresses she'd brought with her in case of - well, just in case - stood in the corner of her closet like guests who have come to the wrong party and are backing out the door.

Anna Quindlen

#12. Satan was crouched in the corner of his office, playing a gameboy, 'Die alien scum' he was saying feverishly..

Eoin Colfer

#13. We're going to see Ragnak," Halt told him. "He's going to have to promise to free every slave who fights for Hallasholm." Will shook his head doubtfully. "He won't like that," he said. Halt turned and looked at him, a faint grin touching the corner of his mouth. He'll hate it," he agreed.

John Flanagan

#14. For some people, they may categorize it as "gay love". And for me, I simply see it as love. And there's no corner of the universe where love cannot abide and grow.

Jennifer Beals

#15. He kissed the corner of my mouth, kissed my cheek, and growled in my ear, Fireworks or what?

Jennifer Echols

#16. Suffice it to say that the LOR has usurped the place of my own work, now adorned with cobwebs and dust in a remote corner of my office.

Julie Schumacher

#17. The New World Order run by the United Nations ain't gonna happen. Because they've shown their hand, and at least some corner of Congress and the American people are awake to it: they've blown it all.

Michael Moriarty

#18. One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine.
"Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous."
Vordarian choked, sputtering.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#19. I'm not backing down until you talk to me."
"What?" I asked, cupping my hand to my ear. "I can't hear you over the flapping sound of my loose vagina."
The corner of his mouth lifted, and he almost laughed. "Is that what that noise is?" he asked. "I thought it was the air conditioner.

Erin McCarthy

#20. When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#21. One corner of Bodee's mouth moves. There's neither a smile nor a frown on his face, but I understand. Without words, he's telling me not to worry. He'll make certain I get home safely tonight.

Courtney C. Stevens

#22. I'm never growing up, I'll just sit in the corner of time and sip my juice box petulantly and judge your terrible Hamlet adaptations.

Rhiannon McGavin

#23. What is this?"

"It's a Harley."

I looked at him from the corner of my eye before turning my silent censure back onto his bike.

"I was implying that you should take me to your big boy mode of transportation instead.

Adrianne Brooks

#24. From character Henry Lee in the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, " He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about". Love it!

Jamie Ford

#25. In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye.

Robert Goddard

#26. Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

Tippi Hedren

#27. If you still crave financial thrills or feel compelled to have exciting investments to talk about with folk at parties, then designate a very small corner of your portfolio as mad money, to be deployed in 'exciting' investments. Just make sure to promise yourself that when it's gone, it's gone.

William J. Bernstein

#28. I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

Jane Austen

#29. I've got a system." He reached under a stack on the left corner of his desk, pulled out a file.
"It's like the magician's tablecloth trick," she commented. "Nicely done."
"Want to see me pull a rabbit out of my hat?

Nora Roberts

#30. Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

Barack Obama

#31. And yet Xiao Li always spoke of her mother as if her image were mounted in a red-and-gold picture frame resting on a shrine in the corner of a tidy house, to be venerated and pleased at all times, like a deceased ancestor ever-present and scrutinizing her progeny.

Victor Robert Lee

#32. Dora sat on a corner of the spread rug, longing to be assigned some task so she could resent it.

Shirley Hazzard

#33. Blunt turned to the man in question with a helpless grin, "You have always proven yourself a mystery to me, good fellow!"
Falconer lifted one corner of his mouth, "Then I have succeeded, Blunt.

Nicole Sager

#34. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Tyson pounding the Earthborn into the ground like a game of whack-a-mole. Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: "The groin. The Earthborn's groin is sensitive."
SMASH!
"Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.

Rick Riordan

#35. His gaze was fixed so intently on me that, though I had been determined to look him in the eye as his equal, I found myself having to stare down at the corner of the table in order to stammer out a word.

Karen Maitland

#36. Every single time you looked at me, through the corner of your eye and smiled. My heart pushed the ribs with all the force towards my lungs, until it got crushed and I could not breathe anymore.

Akshay Vasu

#37. In the corner of her eye she caught her daughter's shoulders drop as Alex exhaled with uncommon soberness. "So you trust me, and you understand that I will never do anything I think might hurt you."

Miriam stopped outside the armory and pivoted to her daughter. "Alex, what have you done?

G.S. Jennsen

#38. Chris says his father was born on the corner of straight and narrow ...

John Marsden

#39. On that island was a lighthouse I had seen every single summer of my entire life and my mother, too, had seen it her entire life, and I wondered how it might affect your way of thinking, if you always had a lighthouse in the corner of your eye.

Per Petterson

#40. I lower my chin to smell the shirt again. I want to wear this forever, without washing it. His dark, spicy aroma consumes the material. I peek at him from the corner of my eye, wondering if he spots me catching a whiff or if he knows how addicting his scent is to girls.

Katie McGarry

#41. Silence has stuffed itself into every corner of this building.

Tahereh Mafi

#42. The screams were heard in every corner of all the Realms. Each feather that was ripped out was a heartrending cry. The archangel wept in silence while, with his flaming hand, he tore the wings from his brother.

Jorge Silva Rodighiero

#43. My goal should never be to raise kids that make me look good. (Oh but how my flesh craves this!) My goal should be to raise kids who love God and spend their lives making His goodness known in their corner of the world.

Lysa TerKeurst

#44. Remember that, so that next time you can just agree with whatever I say and we'll be fine. Though he didn't open his eyes, one corner of his mouth curled, ever so slightly. It was what I was hoping for. For a moment, the barriers had crumbled and we were all right again.

Julie Kagawa

#45. I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

Billy Corgan

#46. I was thinking," Yuri said, licking blood from the corner of his mouth, "that since I bothered to save the world, people might shut up during movies.

Katie Kennedy

#47. Meanwhile, every corner of this city is laced with memories of us together.

Daria Snadowsky

#48. If he could bottle her strength
and vitality, he would. He would take everything that
was Tessa and lock it into a corner of his heart, to take
out when the emptiness got too overwhelming.

Taryn Elliott

#49. She then threw herself into her work for the City of Grand Junction in the northwest corner of Colorado, burying herself in

Steve Jackson

#50. If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

George Bernard Shaw

#51. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

A. N. Wilson

#52. The corner of her mouth dips in and she shakes her head. "People are so messed up. All of us. We just hurt each other."
"Some of us a little more so, don't you think?

Tarryn Fisher

#53. She had experimented with Wicca eight years ago, found that her spells did not produce the desired results of making her every bully bald and fat, and threw it in the corner of her soul as effete and impractical, as she had with a series of other theological outfits.

Thomm Quackenbush

#54. If, as the emperor Augustus says, from his time the coast of the ocean from Cadiz to the mouth of the Elbe obeyed the Romans, the obedience in this corner of it was far from voluntary and little to be trusted.

Theodor Mommsen

#55. Her whole face twisted in agony and one tear fell from the corner of her eye, and I wanted to die right there. I wanted to die before I had to watch another one slip from her eyes.

Nicole Williams

#56. That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.

Arthur David Ritchie

#57. Beware, Charlotte Atherton," Stone murmured as she disappeared around the corner of the barn. "I'm coming for you." A smile of anticipation stretched across his face. "And I always retrieve what I set out after.

Karen Witemeyer

#58. He tracks the rise and fall of the glittering darkness thronged with specks and tendrils of luminous secrets. Falling stars crackle in the cold air and prickle his skin. They flash in the corner of his vision where the eye's discernment of light and shadow is most acute.

John Pipkin

#59. From the corner of her eye, she watched Clay walk to his wagon, where he'd find no shade.
Isolated.
Alone.
How simple it would be to prepare him a plate and walk to the wagon to give it to him.
How difficult to step into his world of loneliness.

Lorraine Heath

#60. When I was your age, I would go to plays all the time, just sit in the darkness and try to take it all in inside me. Contain everything in some corner of my heart so that when I had my shot, it could all come pouring out - all the lights and moments and colour.

Brenna Ehrlich

#61. The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into ...
A monkey?
I think not.

Garth Stein

#62. ( ... ) You're very young."
"No one's young anymore. Anyone who's survived this long is ancient."
There's a smile pulling up one corner of his mouth.

Stephenie Meyer

#63. He looked down on me from the corner of his eyes, for all the world as if there were some mortal feud unavenged between us.

Kiera Cass

#64. There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Evelyn Underhill

#65. You prefer the bed on the opposite wall?"
"I prefer the bookshelf in the lower left corner of the room, and the ceiling fan not to be hanging over my head while I sleep."
"OCD?"
"Feng shui."
"Is it contagious?"
"Hardly anyone gets it.

Devon Monk

#66. I love you, too,' he whispered, one corner of his mouth lifting into a smile. I grinned back, then kissed him until I felt light-headed and breathless.

Alyxandra Harvey

#67. Every place you have ever imagined is real.
There's a fictional city in your mind and you know every corner of it.
Your mind is a world and each of us is a place.

Unknown

#68. Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram. Must add: lavender, ambrosia, valerian, mugwort, pennyroyal, gillyflower, and (when it's warmer) sweet basil.

Neal Stephenson

#69. Yet humanity could not conceive. It tried and tried, and called mighty wizards from every corner of its earthly kingdom, but no child came. Many mourned, and said that a child was a terrible idea to begin with, ...

Catherynne M Valente

#70. You can sometimes avoid costly mistakes. Paint a corner of the room a certain color to see how the light affects it. Or buy just one yard of an expensive fabric to see how you like it in your room.

Alexandra Stoddard

#71. In a corner of her heart she imagined her compassion as kindling that could ignite not only her tender and guarded feelings for her mother, but also jump across the void and ignite her mother's feelings for her.

Sonja Yoerg

#72. From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax.

Christopher Paolini

#73. There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace.

Wilkie Collins

#74. The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul.

Swami Vivekananda

#75. This old man had just humiliated me - and I sat there taking his ridicule like a child. I curled up on the vanity stool and sobbed for what felt like forever, in the one little corner of this whole giant mansion that was supposed to be my own.

Holly Madison

#76. It's getting to the point where, to be honest with you, even though there is a lot of great music around, especially in clubland, certainly from my corner of something I just felt like I needed to get my hands dirty and DJ out.

Erol Alkan

#77. Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Samuel Adams

#78. Could be a cold night so I guess I'll start a fire."
"A fire? Have you got wood?"
A curve played at the corner of his mouth. "Oh, yeah. I got wood."
The door slammed before she realized what she'd said.

Tracy Brogan

#79. What?" The corner of his mouth turned up, his white teeth gleaming in the light.
"Just thinking how hot you are."
He scoffed and playfully rolled his eyes. "Thanks - but aren't all firefighters hot? I mean, we do basically live in fire.

Shaye Evans

#80. The burden of keeping the world, every corner of it, safe is one that has to be evenly shared ... This is especially more so for the interconnectivity of the global system in our generation.

Ray Anyasi

#81. Doubts are the innermost corner of our souls. One must not talk about his doubts, whatever they may be.

Albert Camus

#82. For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of their room, a window seat, a strip of floor which they pace up and down.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#83. I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it ...

Kurt Vonnegut

#84. A corner of his mouth quirked up. "I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you're curious about?"
"Hockey? Polo?"
"Simultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates.

Devon Monk

#85. Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.

Robert Hunter

#86. I am going to give from every corner of my soul.

Michael Dolan

#87. Olive glanced at him quickly. He was crying. She looked away, and from the corner of her eye, she saw him reach into his pocket, heard him blow his nose, a real honk. "My wife died in December," he said. Olive watched the river. "Then, you're in hell," she said. "Then, I'm in hell.

Elizabeth Strout

#88. Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way.

J.K. Rowling

#89. In the far corner of the yard, two squirrels raced up a tree trunk, their little feet scrabbling frantically on the bark. He couldn't tell if they were having a good time or trying to kill each other.

Tom Perrotta

#90. Lisa smiled. 'You know how sometimes, you catch the faintest hint of movement in the corner of your eye, then you blink and it's gone? That's them.

Jennifer McMahon

#91. They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.

Gregory David Roberts

#92. One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.

Eric Burdon

#93. Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.

Geoff Capes

#94. And in each corner of my soul there's an altar to a different god.

Fernando Pessoa

#95. Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him.
"You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

J.K. Rowling

#96. I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.

Julian Casablancas

#97. We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.

Joseph Joubert

#98. You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah ... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.

Elon Musk

#99. Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

Alan Coren

#100. Sometimes it seemed that one of the stars came loose from the firmament and sailed off with dizzying speed to a far corner of the night. In the dark hours before sunrise, constellations came apart and reformed and fell in burning streaks.

Joe Hill