Corrugated Quotes

#1. I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry beneath it, windows boarded up or clad with corrugated iron, precisely reflected my own state of mind ...

W.G. Sebald

#2. As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.

Kevin Kwan

#3. In our skulls, we carry around 3 pounds of slimy, wet, greyish tissue, corrugated like crumpled toilet paper. You wouldn't think, to look at the unappetizing lump, that it was some of the most powerful stuff in the known universe.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#4. Being cautious is new territory; my specialty was leaping, not looking. These days I pay attention. You can stumble uphill as easily as down. Ice comes in smooth and corrugated. Plastic bags are slippery underfoot. A big dog can knock you to your knees.

Abigail Thomas

#5. Miss Sarah Pocket, whom I now saw to be a little dry brown corrugated old woman, with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells ...

Charles Dickens

#6. In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

Amy Waldman

#7. And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

Frank Gehry

#8. And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge.

Yann Martel

#9. He parks in the far corner of the lot, explaining that it is more logical to do this and then walk for fifteen seconds than it is to spend fifteen minutes looking for a closer space.

Neal Stephenson

#10. I guess this is it," Chelsea said. "The beginning of good-bye.

Melissa J. Morgan

#11. Ted, I believe you and I met for a reason. It's like the universe was saying, Hey Barney, there's this dude, he's pretty cool, but it is your job to make him awesome

Barney Stinson

#12. A functional team must make the collective results of the group more important to each individual than individual members' goals.

Patrick Lencioni

#13. Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)

Douglas Adams

#14. It's important for little girls to have characters to look up to, and also be entertained by the fantasy parts. There are a lot of not-so-good role models out there for younger kids, it's good to have someone they can relate to on television.

Phoebe Tonkin

#15. Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#16. Most oddly he was not frightened. That alone he had learned from experience. With the danger would come the courage.

Margery Allingham

#17. A person has no need of sincerity, nor even of skill in lying, in order to be loved. Here I mean by love reciprocal torture.

Marcel Proust

#18. All people are half actors.

Dana Andrews

#19. I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to rule red lines. Yet I am not so indiscriminate as you think, judging me - as you judge me - from my fluency.

Virginia Woolf

#20. But you couldn't change the past; you could only alter the way you dealt with it in the present.

Mandasue Heller

#21. When you say things they don't want to hear, it's like holding a mirror up to them and asking them to look at themselves. It's much easier for them to turn the mirror back on you and claim that your thinking is flawed.

Merry Freer

#22. Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Christopher Fry

#23. I love 'Star Wars,' you know, and I can't remember the last story meeting I've been in where 'Star Wars' wasn't referenced. It's so perfect in so many ways.

Jon Favreau