Tight Corner Quotes

#1. The conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. My heart quickened when I caught a flash of red entering the lunchroom. At the corner door farthest from me, Echo paused and performed a quick scan. She held her books tight to her chest, sleeves clutched in her hands. Our eyes met. Her green eyes melted and she gave me that beautiful siren smile

Katie McGarry

#3. There were women, too. They were a little more what I expected. Tight jeans. Tank tops without bras. Evening makeup at noon. Jersey hair. The general vibe varied from "wouldn't look out of place on a corner of 47th" to "could work at a really nice strip club.

Kelley Armstrong

#4. I like simple things well-done and have no time to philosophize.

George R R Martin

#5. Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men.
~ Gandalf to Pippin

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. We are in a tight corner, now, I agree. But we have been in tight corners before and come out of them. You have to be brave a little longer.

Mary Hoffman

#7. No matter what tight corner I was in, I was capable of getting myself out of it ... not God!

Stephen Richards

#8. Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

Samuel Rutherford

#9. Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.

Nawal El Saadawi

#10. And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole akimbo round the tight corner where Bourke Street enters Spring.

Helen Garner

#11. She doesn't look back as we round the corner and her new jeans are so tight, I hope she gets a yeast infection.

Caroline Kepnes

#12. Out of the corner of my eye, I watched him glaring at me from his "box" as I liked to call it. His pale cheeks were mottled with red, the bald area on his head shining brightly underneath the artificial light. He was thick-set with thick lips that were currently tight with annoyance.

Rose Wynters

#13. 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

#14. You cannot hide your true self forever.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.

Jonathan Brown

#16. It is one to say you have faith and another to be in a tight corner and prove it.

Smith Wigglesworth

#17. The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.

Cole Alpaugh

#18. I wear my sunglasses. Keeps you on one side and me on the other.

Henry Rollins

#19. Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner.

J.R.R. Tolkien