It’s hard when you corner, even when I corner other fighters because it’s demanding.
Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.
I haven’t got the patience for small talk, although I once saw a woman standing on her own in the corner, and I realised it was Monica Lewinsky, and I had the nicest evening with her – she was charming.
In my flat in Chicago, I’ve got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I’m part of it. I didn’t ask to be put here, I’ve been lucky in finding myself here.
My childhood dream? To play at Real Madrid. In 2014, before he died, I promised my grandfather who was from Avila, 110 kilometers from Madrid, that I would play there. It will be complicated, but it sits in a corner of my head.
Most of life is routine – dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg – there’s always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.
I’m a really good driver. I’ve been driving since I was very small, and I do like driving fast. I remember the first time my dad taught me that when you go into a corner you change down then put your foot right down on the way out. I’m very competitive about driving.
Always stay in a happy medium in sport, because you never know what’s around the corner.
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!
We came around the corner, I kissed her and after I kissed her she relaxed. And then I grabbed her and kissed her again and she was shocked! And that was what we wanted.
Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.
When things get you in the corner, and it feels like you can’t go on, you can fight back. You’re never out of the fight.
One of my favorite programs that we didn’t make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I’m trying to reduce that.
Behind every small business, there’s a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn’t come out of nowhere.
Technology is a huge part of our lives and it’s only a matter of time that it becomes a part of every corner of your home, even part of something like furniture.
A lot of people think Formula One isn’t a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we’re pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.
There’s nothing routine about ‘Boardwalk Empire.’ It’s like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: ‘Meet us at the corner of such and so.’
Standing in the corner, it’s not my game.
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.
Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk ’round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.
In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.
I’ve fully turned a corner in terms of thinking about my own voice. I think I have a pretty cool voice, just sonically.
The North Country of New York is a region steeped in rich military tradition. Our corner of this country stands out for the remarkable tradition of brave men and women putting themselves in harm’s way for our nation.
I might have painted myself into a bit of a corner doing all these big, serious David Lean-esque movies.
I used to cry on planes. I don’t anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips.
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.
Listen, there’s always a pitfall around the corner somewhere. You know it’s coming, you don’t know when it’s going to come.
If you’ve got to my age, you’ve probably had your heart broken many times. So it’s not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.
A lot of people say I am not tall and I am small guy. But I jump very high. I surprise a lot of people when I go for the corner kicks.
My dad will sit out in the last tiny corner of the garden that has sunshine until the millisecond the final vestige has gone! As kids we were encouraged to head out of the front door at daybreak, and not come back till we were tired and hungry.
Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
I’ve never had a study in my life. I’m like Jane Austen – I work on the corner of the dining table.
It is the beauty and curse of this industry that you never know what is around the corner.
