Top 92 Quotes About Cornered
#1. The miserable love to watch someone else's misery. I had just about cornered the market on miserable. I was worse than miserable, lower than a flattened sloppy joe left behind on a lunchroom tray. I was alone.
Kami Garcia
#2. Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
Uta Hagen
#3. Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude.
Rob Lowe
#5. She sounded about as displeased as a cat who'd just cornered a mouse.
Marissa Meyer
#6. We're Bonnie and Clyde! Wanted and unwanted. Caged and cornered. We're lost and we're alone. We're a big, tangled mess. We're a shot in the dark. We're two people who have nowhere else, no one else, and yet, suddenly that feels like enough for me! I'm sorry if it's not enough for you.
Amy Harmon
#7. She still stood in front of the garden tub, the piece of glass in her hand, and she stared back at me like an animal cornered.
In that moment she didn't remind me of a harmless little kitten. She was a full-grown tigress, and she still looked like she wanted to do some damage.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#8. A recluse, like Hepzibah, usually displays remarkable frankness, and at least temporary affability, on being absolutely cornered, and brought to the point of personal intercourse; like the angel whom Jacob wrestled with, she is ready to bless you when once overcome.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#9. A wild animal, when cornered, may suddenly and desperately defend itself. This is why I try not to spend any more time outdoors than is absolutely necessary.
Lemony Snicket
#10. Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.
James Belushi
#11. It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'
Breckin Meyer
#12. I can't be impressed by anything, O son of man.
But you surely draw my attention when cornered.
Toba Beta
#13. Well. You've got me cornered, don't you? I'm at your mercy." Her lips quirked. She took a drag of her cigarette. "And I like a man who just won't stop.
Jim Butcher
#14. I've seen that cornered look on more than a few Parish faces over the years, and each time it brings a lump to my throat. The old-timers say you eventually get numb to it. I'm not sure I want to live that long.
Steven Dos Santos
#15. Unlike the beasts of the wild, the many cruel varieties of human monsters, when at last cornered, seldom fight with greater ferocity. Instead, they reveal the cowardice at the core of their brutality.
Dean Koontz
#16. I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.
Margaret Atwood
#17. Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.
Drew Houston
#18. Oh, Iko ... what happened?" "More stupid Lunar guards, that's what happened. He cornered me in the basement of the med-clinic and did this. I had to play dead until he left me alone. Good thing they have no idea how to kill an android here.
Marissa Meyer
#19. The van stank of cabbage and cornered like a drunken elephant. It would do.
Kate Griffin
#20. I swallowed my screams whole. They went down my throat as sharp-cornered and cold as ice cubes.
Scott Westerfeld
#21. A Rattlesnake, if Cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
E. Stanley Jones
#22. It's dangerous when music gets cornered by anything.
Justin Vernon
#23. Only when man cornered,
potential forced to appear.
Toba Beta
#24. I have learned how I work best, and that is something that, if you're going to be a professional writer, you should be noticing: under what circumstances you work at your best, and to not get yourself cornered into writing in a way that doesn't let you do your best.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#25. Sita was breathing hard, her eyes flitting like that of a cornered tigress, anger bursting through every pore.
Amish Tripathi
#26. I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
Michael C. Hall
#27. So I was officially sixteen. For my present, I got cornered by Uncle Freaky, who announced that I was marked for assassination.
Rick Riordan
#28. Conviction is a fist of stone at the heart of all things. Its form is shaped by sure hands, the detritus quickly swept from view. It is built to withstand, built to defy challenge, and when cornered it fights without honour. There is nothing more terrible than conviction.
Steven Erikson
#29. Vultures devour the fallen. Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#30. It's too big to change. It's too heavy and all sharp-cornered and shit.
Tim Tharp
#31. And were you cornered by her,
eye to eye,
you would see that
there are still some watchful creatures
whose essence lies unbound by words.
There is still a wilderness.
Toby Barlow
#32. We need to take a harder look at what's really going on. Stop trying to treat the symptoms and treat the cause of the problem. Maybe we should try a little harder to help these kids before they feel so cornered that they turn into monsters.
Aaron B. Powell
#33. Courage is so rare nowadays, that one gets cornered for having courage of conviction and living by one's ideals. However it is great to be cornered, since the corner with courage is never too crowded.
Jeroninio Almeida
#34. He has definitely cornered the market on enigma. I hope Stella goes for the deeply layered type.
Tera Lynn Childs
#35. I mean, you can't have sex until you're married if you're Mormon. The first time I had sex, my parents found out. They were listening in on the phone while I was talking about sex to my girlfriend. They freaked out, man. They both cornered me in my bedroom.
Bert McCracken
#36. Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.
Yiyun Li
#37. Such are the humiliations of the travel writer in the late 20th century: go to the ends of the earth to search for the most exotic heretics in the world, and you will find that they have cornered the kebab business at the end of your street in London.
William Dalrymple
#38. Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.
Christopher Lambert
#39. From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.
Brad Thor
#40. For the first time all day I felt safe.
Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe not so safe.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#41. I tried hard. I gave it my best.'
That's the enthusiasm we don't need, the sort that doesn't produce results. The more you're cornered, the more important it is ...
... to make your decisions based on reality and not your personal feelings.
- Takano to Onodera
Shungiku Nakamura
#42. Gathered together in this fashion, Jerry could see that the Whitstables possessed certain common physical characteristics, including wayward teeth, large earlobes, and the sort of stress-related blotchiness usually found in cornered jellyfish.
Christopher Fowler
#43. When cornered, a rattle snake can become so angry it's been known to bite itself, which is exactly how I feel in traffic and relationships.
Dov Davidoff
#44. There are other advantages," continued the child. "For instance, if one rat were cornered by nine cats, on the average, each cat would be ten percent rat and the rat would be ninety percent cat. If you happened to be a rat, you can see how much nicer it would make things.
Norton Juster
#45. Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.
Kurt Vonnegut
#46. Ariel gets bad when she's scared. That's when she stings; that's what stings, scared things cornered.
Leah Bobet
#47. Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
Aristophanes
#48. Mal snickered.
"What's so funny?"
"I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.
Leigh Bardugo
#49. The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.
Yuu Watase
#50. I don't think I've ever been either militant or profound as an anti-Fascist. When the issue has come up, when certain things have come up, and I've been called on to express - literally, when I've been cornered, then I take a left-wing stand.
Nelson Algren
#51. I'm a cornered tiger with nowhere to run; the only option that remains is to attack.
Paulo Coelho
#52. I want my team to play like a cornered tiger ... when it's said it's most dangerous
Imran Khan
#53. An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.
Soseki Natsume
#54. I can dance like an angel, fight like a cornered bear, plan better than a fox, sing like a nightingale ...
Neil Gaiman
#55. When you're cornered, there are two things you can do: move or fight.
Josh Fox
#56. Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.
Winston Churchill
#57. What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?
James M. Barrie
#58. The petulance that relatives show towards each other is in truth directed against that intangible Causality which has shaped the situation no less for the offenders than the offended, but is too elusive to be discerned and cornered by poor humanity in irritated mood.
Thomas Hardy
#59. Even a cornered rabbit will fight with teeth and claws.
Alison Goodman
#60. A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance ... like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.
Ken Kesey
#61. It would be wrong to describe Fennel as courageous as it would be wrong to describe a leopard as courageous.It runs when it can but when cornered turns to be one of the dangerous and vicious of all jungle beasts.
The vulture is a patient bird.
James hadley chase.
James Hadley Chase
#62. Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.
Paul Scheer
#63. All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
Bruce Jackson
#64. I always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished for the next one in order not to get too cornered and depressed about it.
Pawel Pawlikowski
#65. The natural world had gone badly wrong. Everything that mankind is doing on the planet had upset the delicate balance of nature. The pollution, the rampant industrialization, the loss of habitat-when animals were squeezed and cornered, they behave viciously, in a desperate effort to survive.
Michael Crichton
#67. I cornered him a few nights after the stampede and made sure he knew that little boys who liked rope got sliced up by men who liked knives.
Amy Harmon
#68. Just what I needed, another psycho bitch after me. Hadn't the Weres pretty much cornered that market?
Charlaine Harris
#69. You can hold on to the smallest doubt and take comfort in it, stay in denial and go on with your carefree life, until one day you're finally cornered by a truth that can no longer be ignored.
Glenn Beck
#70. Above him stood the angel in white,the one who had come to his aid,taken down the males who had cornered and beat him.
"Who are you?"Nicholas uttered hoarsely.
"My name is Lucian,"said the angel."I am your brother.
Laura Wright
#71. There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day.
Shane McCrae
#72. Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
Mary Garden
#73. Deer in headlights.
Cornered suspect.
Mouse in the open, owls circling.
Kathy Reichs
#74. As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.
John F. Kerry
#75. Of what good is an armchair of velvet when the rest of the environment does not match? It is like a man going around naked and wearing a three-cornered hat.
Soren Kierkegaard
#76. I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, 'Kid, you're going to make a mint in television movies.' He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that market. They were 20-day projects.
Mare Winningham
#77. We will not die cornered and cowering in the ruins of a dead city.
Rachel L. Schade
#78. Anyway, I was the one in real danger. I got cornered by a pack of wild sorority girls in the food court. Apparently it's mating season.
Rachel Vincent
#79. Fine. Whatever. I don't. Nobody understands your pain, Mae. Because it is so unique! Nobody's ever loved something so much they would do anything to save it, except for you, Mae. You cornered that market!
Amanda Hocking
#80. Could be. I'm a pretty dangerous dude when I'm cornered."
"Yeah," said the voice from under the table, "you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.
Douglas Adams
#81. Occasionally, young men, too, were thus violated. They fought like cornered lions. It always took three or four crewmen to subdue one of our boys.
Daniel Black
#82. I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.
David Nicholls
#83. It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
Khaled Hosseini
#84. When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped to go rolling down.
Sun Tzu
#85. I had a dream about you. We were actors in a horror movie and I was hunting you down with a knife. When I finally cornered you the director yelled "Cut".... What? I can't be blamed for following instructions.
Georgia Saratsioti
#86. Maybe she'll fight better this way. Nothing motivates you like being alone and cornered on the streets.
Marie Lu
#87. cornered the market on good pussy and was working her way into world-wide distribution rights.
J.S. Danielle
#88. You ... " The centaur's eyes flared like a cornered animal's. "You should be dead.
Rick Riordan
#89. IN THE UNFORTUNATE EVENT THAT YOU FIND YOURSELF CORNERED BY A MEMBER OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN, PICK YOUR NOSE.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#90. Millie's car cornered like a beached whale, and the brakes required brute force to get them to - you know - stop. It explained a lot about my aunt's driving style. The
Joelle Charbonneau
#91. Only a fool would underestimate a man with nothing to lose.
Lance Conrad
#92. When its back's against the wall, even positivity will come out fighting!
Serina Hartwell
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