Famous Quotes & Sayings

My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally worked himself to death.

Maria Bamford

My dad has some depressive issues, and he's really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say things that are not super supportive. Like once I did a set, and he says, 'Sheesh, no wonder you're still single.' I was like, 'Eight ball, corner pocket, dad.'

Kate Klise

I like working on stories where I can explore the darker corners of childhood without illustrations but with humor.

Clinton Morrison

She is happy. She only lives five minutes around the corner so she is buzzing.

She really got me to understand perspectives on portraits -- the way your eyes line up with your ears and your pupils line up with the corners of your lips. Your finger is the same length as your nose. Your forearm is the same length as your feet.

Mobile home parks are just not being created today, but mobile homes are being sold. They're going somewhere. They're filling in the corner of a hayfield here and an old wood lot there.

Pat Riley

There are universal truths of defensive basketball. If a guy is open, guard him. Don't leave him standing in the corner or out on the three-point line.

Last year we thought we were finally going to turn the corner ... we actually saw a slight decline in travel. So we were half-right last year.

Let all the world in every corner sing / My God and King.

David Baltimore

So I don't know where he cut corners and where he didn't.

Hayley Wickenheiser

She threw it out from the corner to the high slot, and I just sort of made a little fake and went top shelf over the Swedish goalie. It was a decent goal, a nice goal. Sometimes you get them on garbage goals, but this was kind of a fun one.

She's very hard to mark and very tall. We spent about an hour practicing how to defend corner kicks. I guess we didn't do it very well.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring...

Garry Hynes

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

Glenn Tipton

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

The pedestrian gate on the southwest corner of the intersection had been manipulated, so that it was in the up position.

Bruce Coville

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

Christopher Fry

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time

Christopher Fry

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

Barack Obama

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.

B. B. King

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.