If you ask anyone on any street corner in the world what the Soviet Union looks like, they would probably have very strong opinions. And they probably would be wrong.
It’s very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square – that’s the craziest one.
I can’t solve the world’s problems, can’t even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.
I’m not a natural leader. If you see me in a room, I’m the guy standing in a corner hiding. I’m not an alpha male.
An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.
Winnie the Pooh was such a part of my childhood. My kindergarten was named Pooh Corner, after one of A.A. Milne’s collections of stories.
The telecom industry reaches into every corner of our economies, societies, and private lives, and it is one of the greatest drivers of economic growth and human equality the world has ever seen.
Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.
We were now back at Smith Landing, and fired with a desire to make another Buffalo expedition on which we should have ampler time and cover more than a mere corner of the range.
Any role that’s proactive is a great role, and action roles are by their very nature proactive. You get to do stuff. I hate sitting in a corner – I’d much prefer an action role in a popcorn movie rather than pining in a corner not doing anything.
I’m a really big Juice Press fan. There is a store right around the corner from my apartment in New York.
My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to use the right knives and forks and behave properly.
The Palestinians are facing a historic junction at which they will have to decide whether they want to remain stuck in a corner of extreme fundamentalism, which will cut them off from the entire world, or whether they are ready to take the necessary steps. My role is to assist in building this process.
I’ve had time to taste fame, but I definitely lean towards being the kind of actor where I’m happy to be able to walk down the street and go to the corner store and not get hassled.
I always felt like I needed to be backed up in a corner to push myself.
I mean, I don’t really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
I’ve learned a lot from trainers over the years, but mainly that you need discipline to stay in the gym and out of the many fine cupcake emporiums on every corner.
Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.’s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.
I first met Jim Valvano in the 1980s when he was a frequent guest on our CNN ‘Coaches Corner’ show based in Atlanta, as he was always in the area recruiting the next North Carolina State basketball phenom.
I know something great will come around the corner, and that’s what I’ll be doing next.
If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.
Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.
When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner.
We’re always trying to elevate the platform of Christian and gospel music, church music, worship music and not just elevate it to our comfortable corner of the earth that we maintain an international and global mindset for what we’re doing.
There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.
Creating a distraction is a skill we should all have. Never take for granted your ability to spot something interesting out of the corner of you eye and take attention away from your thoughtlessness.
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, ‘Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?’
I make at least 200 corner 3s every day before I leave the gym. I’m getting them up. I’m getting the same shot up over and over again, so I’m getting more comfortable with it.
When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don’t even think about that.
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.
We don’t know what’s around the corner.
In the ’80s, a lot of kids, if you were kind of bright, you got bussed to schools out of your community. So you wouldn’t know the talented musicians who lived around the corner from you.
The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that’s rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, ‘What if I wandered into this writer’s people here?’ If you’ve done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can’t buy.
Don’t get confused; doing choreography in the ring can be done by anyone. I take the guy who works in the gas station on the corner, and I teach him a choreography for a week, and I swear he can do it in a ring.
Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.
I’m an optimist; I always believe that there must be something round the 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.
Today’s children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.
Let’s face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they’re waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.
When I’m out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.
At the end of the day, I know what my skill set and abilities are, and it’s just going to take people a little while to recognize it. Whether that comes around or not, I’m not going to sit here in the corner and pout about it.
I think it’s very hard to find a big corner who can run and who also can play the ball very well.
I’m not activist, but I’m not troubled by being in the LGBT corner.
Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
I didn’t corner the market on great stories. I’m not the only one who can do something like work at a grocery store and then win a Super Bowl. Other people can do it. You hope people will see that and say, ‘Hey, that will be me.’ They’re going to chase after it like I did. And they’re going to be the next one.
Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can’t make a healthy choice.
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’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.
My Dad has given me a lot of advice, but this advice comes especially from the attitude point of view. He’s never told me how to drive a car, how to do a corner, nothing like that. He believe this comes from the talent. You are born with it or you are not born with it.
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you’re dead. You know, you’re out on the street corner. You think there’s no bus coming. You step out, you’re dead.
I’ve learnt that you never know what is around the corner, so it’s best to enjoy the ride.
Middle English is an exciting field – almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces – as far as language goes, at any rate.
I think that first-person shooter is a stable genre that’s going to be here forever, just like there are going to be driving games forever. There’s something just intrinsically rewarding about turning around a corner and shooting at something.
