Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ira Glass

I never realized before this the emotional power of some really simple, corny tropes: people with top hats, people with batons, confetti going off, how important it is to smile.

Nichelle Nichols

Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago.

We don't have a lot of walks. We're throwing a lot of strikes, and working the corners real well. Our pitchers are doing a good job.

Karl Pilkington

I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.

Warren Spector

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!

Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.

Ben Gibbard

When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band.

Adam Smith

Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

Harvey V. Fineberg

We don't have spittoons on street corners any more. It's no longer acceptable to spit on the street.

Feist

When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.

Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.

ASAP Rocky

I'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have a voice that speaks for a whole other market - not just black people, but high fashion urban people. I mix street wear with high fashion. It's never been seen before.

Bjork

A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.

Nikki Reed

For the most part, I try to stay away from high fructose corn syrup and citric acid.

Tobin Bell

'Saw' is like a big jigsaw puzzle. When you put a jigsaw puzzle together, you put the bottom left corner together first, and then you find yourself working on the upper right corner... That's the way 'Saw' plays out.

Felipe Alou

I thought the guy was out. Saw a strike on the corner that was not ruled a strike.

I think we're all finally getting used to each other. Having Josh at corner has helped us.

Tim Murray

I think we need a team in the Corner Office ... that first and foremost know how to make government work.

I think we have turned the corner in the United States,

Saku Koivu

I thought Perezhogin played really strong, he scored his second goal, he's been a real surprise. We knew he had offensive talent but the way he worked for the puck in the corners was impressive.

Brenton Thwaites

I haven't had the whole 'famous' thing happen to me yet, and I hope I never will. I like to sneak away in the corners and hide a lot.

Alice Morse Earle

It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.

Steve Cook

Those games mean a lot for them. So I know we'll have our hands full. When you get a dog in a corner like that, that's when they become most dangerous.

Ralph Goodale

those forces just around the corner are going to make it difficult to maintain the pace.

Aravind Adiga

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

There's an opportunity for the corner drugstore to play a much greater role. Pharmacists have been extremely well respected - they're one of the top two or three most-trusted professionals in opinion polls year after year.

With that green and the way the wind swirls in that corner of the golf course, playing that hole in even par over four days is going to be really good.

When we went around in the alley, (Robinson) was heading eastbound in the alley. So we kind of flipped around, he kind of (saw) us in the corner of his eye and he started heading back to his residence. So he knew he had a warrant,

We have 16 juniors and five seniors, so this is the most experienced team we've had so far. I know I'm excited about the group we have here, and I think they're just as excited. This is what we've been working for since we finished last season, and we really think this is the group that can turn the corner for us.

The reason to own Corning is that they have a corner on the market in the highest quality glass for flat-screen TVs.

Arthur Helps

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

We lessen our dependency on foreign oil with every kernel of corn transformed to ethanol.