Top 1200 Street Corner Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone.

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

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.

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

People speaking into handheld devices while they walk down the street and saying to the device, "I'm walking down the street now." People are enslaved. I was just up in the country for a few days last week and it was great: no television, no telephone, no nothing. I walked through the woods, sat around, smoked. And it was lovely. I think the desire to be free has mutated, and we now live in an era when the slaves celebrate their slavery - this whole corporate concept of being part of a "team" at work.

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

When you step out there on the field as a corner in our system, you have to be ready to play because humility is one week away.

In the deep corner of my heart, I'm a Chicagoan, but it's been covered over by 20 years of living in the Bay Area.

The impact of QE on generating more lending by Wall Street to Main Street and in generating more employment and increasing overall investment in the economy is quite modest. QE probably limited the initial collapse of the economy in 2008, and likely had a very small positive impact on economic growth, but its broader impact on jobs and growth in the economy seems not very big.

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

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.

I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I do nothing in the meantime.

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.

I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.

Communities in every corner of America struggle to fill nursing vacancies to provide care for everyone who needs it.

Everything that's happening in our world is a function of what is going on inside of people. We are violent in our minds. We are violent with one another. We walk past one another in the street and don't even look nor make eye contact - don't speak. We can be outraged about the missiles and the planes. I'm more outraged that somebody will walk past me in the street and not look me in the face and say good morning.

Satan was crouched in the corner of his office, playing a gameboy, 'Die alien scum' he was saying feverishly.

I'm a really big Juice Press fan. There is a store right around the corner from my apartment in New York.

If you believe a black cat is bad luck, people think you're crazy, but plenty of times, if I see a black cat down my street, I turn around and go the other way. Even if I'm late. I'll be late for the airport and be in a limo, and if I see a black cat, I'll be like, 'Sir, you have to turn around and go down the next street.'

I think it's very important to get this stuff on film, not just the behind-the-scenes of the process, but also the interviews with the women. We're going to try to do some on-the-street filming, getting people's reactions to the work, and seeing if we can get some street harassment happening on film so people can see what we're talking about. It's important to have some type of documentation so people can see what happens when we create this artwork and why I'm creating it.

Haunted Gulp down your wine, old friends of mine, Roar through the darkness, stamp and sing And lay ghost hands on everything, But leave the noonday's warm sunshine To living lads for mirth and wine. I met you suddenly down the street, Strangers assume your phantom faces, You grin at me from daylight places, Dead, long dead, I'm ashamed to greet Dead men down the morning street.

A drone strike is a terror weapon, we don't talk about it that way. It is; just imagine you are walking down the street and you don't know whether in 5 minutes there is going to be an explosion across the street from some place up in the sky that you can't see. Somebody will be killed, and whoever is around will be killed, maybe you'll be injured if you're there. That is a terror weapon. It terrorizes villages, regions, huge areas. It's the most massive terror campaign going on by a long shot.

You'll never see me coming around the corner not smiling... I mean, I enjoy every moment.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

When I was 7, we bought a big house at the corner of Wilshire and Western and put in one of the earliest swimming pools in Southern California.

But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.

We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first.

When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around 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.

I hate hearing in a UFC corner, 'You won the first four rounds; just stay away from him this round.'

There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.

In the Lotus Sutra, Buddha says to light up one corner - not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.

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.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

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

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

In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.

The dirty little secret of what used to be known as Wall Street securities firms-Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, and Bear Stearns-was that every one of them funded their business in this way to varying degress, and every one of them was always just twenty-four hours away from a funding crisis. The key to day-to-day survival was the skill with which Wall Street executives managed their firms' ongoing reputation in the marketplace.

There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort – we were poised to make that next jump.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

I think it is quite wrong to photograph, for example, Garbo, if she doesn't want to be photographed. Now I would have loved to photograph her, but she obviously didn't want to be photographed so I didn't follow it up. Then somebody will photograph her walking down the street because she has to walk down the street, and I mind that sort of intrusion. I think this is horrible.

Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

Had a lot of moments that didn't last forever, now you're in the corner tryin' to put it together - how to love.

The good thing is that people have slowly started helping each other and not shunning Corona patients to a corner.

I draw inspiration from my travels, so I am always keeping my eye out for what is new in each corner of the country.

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

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.

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

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

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

My mom used to tell me, I can't use this phrase on the radio - but basically don't be one of those dudes hanging on the corner.

There's very little greatness in this world, but in the crucible of quality there's a special corner reserved for Van Halen.

I like street performance because it's garbage time. The subway is garbage time: no one can say I'm wasting their time because they've already thrown that time into the subway. If they don't want to see me they can go to the other end of the platform. But on the street I do feel this disgust towards the audience: why would you waste your time looking at me? Why are you being so respectful of me? You should attack me.

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-

Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.