Top 1200 Street Corner Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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)

I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

In football you never know what's around the corner, but by sticking together - directors, management, players and fans - we can look to do something.

I guess you never have any clue how many people are in your corner until something tough happens.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

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.

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.

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'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.

When we are parted, let me lie In some far corner of thy heart Silent, and from the world apart, Like a forgotten melody

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

Always believe in yourself and never give up because you don't know what success could be right around the corner.

It's especially important to make sure all clients are happy. You don't want to get stuck into a corner and for people to think you now only have one look.

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.

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

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 saw in Chicago, on the street where I was visiting my sister-in-law, this "Urban Renewal" and it means one thing: "Negro removal." But they want to tear the homes down and put a parking lot there. Where are those people going? Where will they go? And as soon as Negroes take to the street demonstrating, one hears people say, "they shouldn't have done it." The world is looking at America and it is really beginning to show up for what it is really like. "Go Tell It on the Mountain." We can no longer ignore this, that America is not "the land of the free and the home of the brave."

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

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

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 tell you this: I'm not an outdoorsman. Actually, one of my things is to pick a little corner in Borders or Barnes & Noble and fall back and just read.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I think the best cover corner I've faced is Patrick Peterson. He's been great so long that people really overlook him.

Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.

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.

God doesn't seem to talk to people like he used to. Who's he talking to now? I don't know. Then I'm walking down the street in Manhattan one day, and I realize maybe it's those guys you see walking down the street talking to themselves. You know, those guys that are like, 'I can't! No, I can't!' Maybe the other side of that conversation is God going, 'You're the new leader.' 'No I can't!' They're not crazy - they're reluctant prophets.

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

I can now video chat with my grandkids from any corner of the world, listen to music, or order food and have it delivered to my front door.

In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

I began my show business career playing violin in San Francisco at the corner of Market and Taylor. I understand that there is a theater there now.

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

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.

When Malcolm X was assassinated I was working at the Apollo. They brought his body to the Unity Funeral Home, which was around the corner.

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.

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

The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.

I just want to write songs in my little corner. And I still love music, I've not been worn down by cynicism.

If you have a billion people running a phone in every corner of their lives, and all these third-party apps and all these countries and all these languages, there are going to be issues.

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.

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've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.

I always say, when you're onstage you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's okay. Thank God the majority are in my corner.

Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens.

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

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

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

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.