Stephen Fry book The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Source: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Stephen Fry book The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Source: The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
“Love was in the air so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.”
Daniel Handler book Adverbs
Source: Adverbs (2006), Immediately
“We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners.”
Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist
“You can't just sit in a corner weeping or you'll die.”
Elizabeth Wein book Rose Under Fire
Source: Rose Under Fire
Michael Palin (1943) British comedian, actor, writer and television presenter
"Letter from London" (18 September 2003) http://palinstravels.co.uk/static-51?topic=1752&forum=12 <br class="br">Context: Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won’t be made safer by creating barriers between people. Cries of “They’re evil, let’s get ‘em” or “The infidels must die” sound frightening, but they’re desperately empty of argument and understanding. They’re the rallying cries of prejudice, the call to arms of those who find it easier to hate than admit they might be not be right about everything.<br>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.
“Good days, they come around the oddest corners.”
Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin
Source: Let the Great World Spin
“Don't push me
I've got a corner at my back
I've nowhere to go except over you.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die
Carl Sagan book Cosmos
Source: Cosmos (1980), p. 193
Context: For as long as there been humans we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Where are we? Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. This perspective is a courageous continuation of our penchant for constructing and testing mental models of the skies; the Sun as a red-hot stone, the stars as a celestial flame, the Galaxy as the backbone of night.
“There's hope around the corner.”
Margaret Peterson Haddix book Because of Anya
Source: Because of Anya
“A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)”
Agatha Christie book The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
Source: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
“Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.”
Rick Riordan (1964) American writer
William Gibson book Neuromancer
Source: Neuromancer (1984)
Context: A year here and he still dreamed of cyberspace, hope fading nightly. All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and he'd still see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void… The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy. Just another hustler, trying to make it through. But the dreams came on in the Japanese night like livewire voodoo, and he'd cry for it, cry in his sleep, and wake alone in the dark, curled in his capsule in some coffin hotel, his hands clawed into the bedslab, temperfoam bunched between his fingers, trying to reach the console that wasn't there.
“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
“There's nothing wrong with you.. not even the darkest corner of that beautiful soul. ~ Hunter”
Vicki Pettersson (1972) American author
Source: City of Souls
“Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.”
David Guterson book Snow Falling on Cedars
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), Ch. 32, last page.
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Love in the Afternoon
“sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.”
Eric Idle (1943) British comedian, actor, singer and writer
“Even a cornered rabbit will fight with teeth and claws.”
Alison Goodman (1966) Australian science-fiction writer
Source: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!”
Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead
Source: The Fountainhead
Christine Feehan American writer
Source: The Twilight Before Christmas
Gideon Defoe (1975) British writer
Source: The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists
Sarra Manning (1950) British writer
Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream
Source: Requiem for a Dream
Douglas Adams book The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree.”
Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
Source: The Fry Chronicles
“I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.”
Sylvia Day book Bared to You
Source: Bared to You
Paul Bowles (1910–1999) American composer, writer, translator
Sally Gardner (1954) British children's writer and illustrator
“I will find you.
In the farthest corner, I will find you.”
Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception
Source: The Kiss of Deception
“I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.”
Jon Ronson (1967) British journalist, documentary filmmaker, radio presenter and nonfiction author
Source: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist
"Drown Soda"
Song lyrics, B-sides and compilations
Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host
The Glenn Beck Program
Premiere Radio Networks
2010-06-08
Beck believes that in 100 to 200 years, his 8-28 rally "will be remembered as the moment America turned the corner"
2010-06-08
Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201006080027
on his Restoring Honor rally on 2010-08-28
2010s, 2010
Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867) French painter (1812-1867)
as quoted by Romain Rolland in his book Millet, c. 1900; transl. Miss Clementina Black; published by Duckworth & Co, Londo / E. P. Dutton & Co, New York, 1919, p. 8
undated quotes
Edna O'Brien (1930) Novelist, memoirist, biographer, playwright, poet and short story writer
New York Times Book Review, February 14, 1993
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Serious Business http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/serious-business/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
Amir Taheri (1942) Iranian journalist
Opinion: Like Father, Like Son http://www.aawsat.net/2015/02/article55341622/opinion-like-father-like-son, Ashraq Al-Awsat (February 20, 2015).
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
Wong, Veronica, and Gisela Sommer. “ Ai Weiwei Describes Mental Torment in Captivity http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/ai-weiwei-describes-mental-torment-in-captivity-59915.html.” Epoch Times, August 3, 2011. <br class="br">2010-, 2011
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out"
Song lyrics, Born to Run (1975)
Thomas Hardy book Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Phase the Second: Maiden No More, ch. XIV
Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891)
Mary Midgley (1919–2018) British philosopher and ethicist
Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979).
Jenny Lewis (1976) American actor, singer-songwriter
"A Man/Me/Then Jim"
Song lyrics, More Adventurous (2004)
James Hamilton (1814–1867) Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 83.
Donald McGill (1875–1962) British artist
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill", in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (1984) Vol. 2, pp. 194-5.
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