Top 1200 Around The Corner Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

I have always been very comfortable behind a microphone. I love talking about basketball, I love being around people, I love being around the game, the travel and the excitement around the arena.

It's not OK for somebody to push a fighter into a corner and strong-arm him to accept whatever the promoter wants.

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

I think what you do is, you keep your sensors open. And it's - the more that you do the job, the more you come to understand in a kind of intuitive way that you're always - you know, your radar is on. And the thing is going around and around and around. And it's not picking up any blips.

I had gone from a small town in the eastern corner of India to San Francisco, and I was very lucky to get that.

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.

I'm a huge Dirty Dancing fan. I feel like I should be reading [William] Shakespeare, but I'm watching Baby not be in a corner.

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

There's always another idea round the corner that I want to do. So while I can, it's important to do them, because there will come a time when I can't.

There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.

I come from theatre and there have been roles where my job was to stand in the corner, with a sword in my hands, for two hours. And I was happy doing that.

We will continue to organize. You have seen consistent organizing since the Women's March on Washington in every corner of this country.

I lived in L.A. for four years, and basically, every corner you go to, or in a restaurant, you can't even find people from the same background.

You're looking at each and every potential corner for an air bubble to escape. Absolutely! You're on the best of your game.

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

I've always maintained that if I didn't have the boot and was talking serious things on the street corner, it would be very easy to ignore me.

I never thought I would be married at 23, but that's the fun thing about life - you don't know what is waiting for you at the next corner.

The further I've gotten into the Internet, the more I've become convinced that we've explored only a tiny corner of what it can mean and what we can feel there.

For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)

Scared?" Malfoy muttered, so that Lockhart couldn't hear him. "You wish." said Harry out of the corner of his mouth.

The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.

I'm never going to be one of these players who dribbles past three and bends it into the top corner from 25 yards. That's not me.

I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

For decades, Turkey was widely viewed as a reliable NATO ally: prickly at times, but safely in America's corner.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Can you imagine a demon auction? Serial killer going once...twice...sold to the drama queen at the corner.

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.

Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?

I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed. I knew about scales, but I didn't think about chords. I was fortunate in that he lived right around the corner so I'd be at his house almost every day and he showed me about playing melodies over chords. After about three years, I could play some gigs. I worked with drummer Roy Brooks and other guys my age at that time, like trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer. Some of the older guys were Paul Chambers, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes

I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags around the stage. But the flag will make an appearance. I think it's more likely to be draped around an instrument than waved around.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

I discovered early in life that if you take gym first period, you can go into the wrestling room and sit in the corner and sleep.

Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!

A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow.

It's tough being a small player. You don't want to be known as a guy who goes into the corner and loses 50 percent of the battles.

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

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.

I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-

Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.

There was a boy in my building who was my best friend when I was growing up. There was also a mysterious person on my corner who we called the Laughing Man.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

From being on a panel show, they always need the blonde airhead sat in a corner they can make fun of, and I'm here to go, 'No, we're not the punchline.'

I'm a Gemini, so my mood always changes - one minute I'm dance-dancey, the next I'm in the corner minding my own business.

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.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Whilst I love still hiding... games and puzzles to play, I'm not as imprisoned by that need to fill every corner with detail.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

I want to be in a place where they know I'm the best corner in the game and let me play and help the team get wins.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.

A man who thinks that death is against life can never be non-violent. It is impossible. A man who thinks that death is the enemy can never be at ease, at home. That is impossible. How can you be at ease when the enemy is waiting for you any moment? It will jump on you and destroy you. How can you be non-tense when death is waiting just around the corner and the shadow of death is always falling on you? It can happen any moment. How can you rest when death is there? How can you relax? The enemy won't allow you to relax.

I wanted us to be careful about, going to the corner diner, interviewing three people and saying, "here's the mood of the public."