Corners Quotes

• Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.

  

  Arnulf Rainer
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Painting

• Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.

  

  Emily Yoffe
  • People
  • Kind
  • Decision

• People get nervous driving around corners, thinking they're going to tip over. But you can go soooo much faster through the curves than you realize.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Driving

• The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know whats around the corner.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Attitude
  • Knows
  • Twenties

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

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Night
  • Hard
  • Hamburgers

• The car drives really really good so far. No changes on the next pit stop. It's great, I can hold it down right along the bottom here in the corners I'm just ridin' around out here just waiting until later to make a move

  

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
  • Changes
  • Around
  • Bottom

• Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

  

  Milton Avery
  • Art
  • Around
  • Corners

• Libertarianism is neither of the left nor of the right. It is unique. It is sui generis. It is apart from left and right. The left right political spectrum simply has no room for libertarianism. Think of an equilateral triangle, with libertarianism at one corner, the left at a second corner and the right at the third corner. We are equally distant from both of those misbegotten political economic philosophies. No, better yet, think in terms of an isosceles triangle, with us at the top and the two of them at the bottom, indicating they have more in common with each other than with us.

  

  Walter Block
  • Political
  • Unique
  • Philosophy

• Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.

  

  Geoff Capes
  • Kids
  • War
  • Father

• Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.

  

  William Franklin Beedle Jr.
  • Running
  • Streets
  • Mets

• I do like to hang out in the corner and keep my eye on the party, or be outside in a smaller group.

  

  Sara Gilbert
  • Party
  • Eye
  • Groups

• Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

  

  Carter Burwell
  • Death
  • Corners

• Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

  

  Roz Chast
  • Happens
  • Tiny
  • Phobia

• Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Waiting
  • Directions
  • Corners

• I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Knows
  • Seek
  • Corners

• 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.

  

  Ernest Thompson Seton
  • Desire
  • Should
  • Range

• Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Way
  • Spiritual
  • Waiting

• DMT raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug
  • Events
  • Intense

• Sometimes I had to force the overpainting of three corners almost without any feeling for shape, almost without inspiration, only to find my way back, to get out of this hell...

  

  Arnulf Rainer
  • Inspiration
  • Hell
  • Shape

• One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.

  

  Frederic Louis Sauser
  • Sometimes
  • Living
  • Mysterious

• When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners

  

  George Karl
  • Player
  • Lines
  • Corners

• I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

  

  Ann M. Martin
  • Universe
  • Corners
  • Lift

• I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

  

  Michael Moriarty
  • Death
  • Around
  • Corners

• My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

  

  Keariene Muizz
  • Canvas
  • Salvation
  • Edges

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