Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Shum, Jr.

I would be in a room full of people being loud and running around, and I'd be in the corner just playing with the wall. So I was very, very quiet, but when I really got into the arts, that opened me up.

Garry Hynes

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

Glenn Tipton

Then I decided I couldn't just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction.

Feist

When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.

Writers are nosy people; we are endlessly curious: we ask questions when we shouldn't - we peek around corners when we are least expected.

Bjork

A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.

Sam Madison

We have a lot of young corners that are ready to play. They've prepared well. They're ready. I've done some great things over the last nine years here, and it's part of the business. It just happens sometimes.

Peter O'Toole

An Oscar is a symbol that is known in every corner of the world.

We need to turn the corner and start playing more consistently each week. I think we're in a better position to do that this season.

Levi Jones

We can be on the sidelines watching the corners and he can tell you exactly what the corner did wrong.

We have been working on corner kicks and set plays. They ran them really well today.

Corey Williams

Usually you have kids, and they live right around the corner just to hold onto the family bond.

Pierre Loti

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

Peter Riegert

You have to have an ego to be an actor, but you need an ego just to get through life! Unless you want to sit on a corner and suck your thumb, it takes a healthy ego to get up in the morning and say, 'I deserve to be here.'

With that green and the way the wind swirls in that corner of the golf course, playing that hole in even par over four days is going to be really good.

When we went around in the alley, (Robinson) was heading eastbound in the alley. So we kind of flipped around, he kind of (saw) us in the corner of his eye and he started heading back to his residence. So he knew he had a warrant,

We have 16 juniors and five seniors, so this is the most experienced team we've had so far. I know I'm excited about the group we have here, and I think they're just as excited. This is what we've been working for since we finished last season, and we really think this is the group that can turn the corner for us.

The reason to own Corning is that they have a corner on the market in the highest quality glass for flat-screen TVs.

Kirk Hinrich

First I slipped and fell down. Then I got up and tried to turn the corner but he (McGrady) bodied me up and I didn't get a very good shot off.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. Once, at the premiere of the opera, I got to La Scala before Domenico, and I was hiding in the corner until he arrived, and I said, 'Quick, you have to tie my tie, please!' Otherwise, I'll wear a tuxedo jacket with jeans and my bling-bling cross.

Enrico Caruso

To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the earth; there is no one spot that will do more for you than other places. It doesn't matter so much where you are if you have intelligence and a good ear.

Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann

I like things clean, and I have a biannual clean-out of my apartment. I throw out raggedy things and things I never wear, and there's a Goodwill around the corner for anything worthwhile.

Paloma Picasso

Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.

There's an opportunity for the corner drugstore to play a much greater role. Pharmacists have been extremely well respected - they're one of the top two or three most-trusted professionals in opinion polls year after year.

Arthur Helps

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

We have crews that are standing by 24 hours a day, we have a loader parked around the corner for quick response and our plow trucks are always on the road.

Aravind Adiga

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

Anson Mount

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.

Bill Bryson

I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did - all of these peoples' lives went on.

Billy Preston

The first time I met Ray, I was going to school around the corner from his house. One day, he was playing the piano. I eased up on the porch to listen to him.

Whenever corners press and play man coverage, you've got to get excited. You're definitely looking for the ball.