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• If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you’re in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you’ll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

  Glen Hansard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stand, Chicago, Corner

• London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments – of light, of weather.

  Graham Swift

  Topics in Ability

  Tags in Corner, Weather

• 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.

  Raymond Joseph Teller

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Leave, Corner

• 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.’

  Michael Shannon

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Empire, Corner

• The apocalypse is not around the corner.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corner

• The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That’s how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he’d seen in the East End of London.

  Martin Scorsese

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Charles, Corner
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  Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

  Rumi

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Gratitude, Corner

• ‘The Panorama’ is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

  Jerry Saltz

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Seeing, Corner

• In this case we’re building a corner to stretch a fence and hang a gate. It had a real purpose in the ranch here. I needed to do this. But at the same time, it made a beautiful structure.

  Bruce Nauman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Case, Corner

• 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.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in See, Corner

• I’ve never had a study in my life. I’m like Jane Austen – I work on the corner of the dining table.

  A. N. Wilson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Study, Corner

• Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.

  Giraldus Cambrensis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Supreme, Hereafter, Corner, Judge

• As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.

  Thomas Harrison

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  Tags in Corner, Witness

• Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corner, Assumed, Questions

• I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

  Alan Alda

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Corner, Assumed, Questions

• I don’t like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don’t like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it’s essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Topics in Baby

  Tags in Corner, Crossing, Kind

• Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

  Wilson Mizner

  Tags in Overcoat, Corner

• For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

  William Gibson

  Tags in Corner, Mourning