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«Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.»
«When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpseOut of the corner of my eye.I turned to look but it was goneI cannot put my finger on it nowThe child is grown, The dream is gone.I have become comfortably numb.»
«The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Lies,
Listening,
Politicians,
Politics
| Keywords:
corner, exhausted, politician, street corner, stump, stumps
«There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Improvement,
People,
Universe
| Keywords:
corner, cornered, improving, the universe
«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.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Humanity,
Mankind
| Keywords:
corner, far and away, forgotten, galaxies, galaxy, humdrum, insignificant, live on, planet, star, the Galaxy, tuck, tucked
«We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast? Instead of all that, what if it's one little room, like a bathhouse in the country, black and grimy and spiders in every corner, and that'»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Eternity
| Keywords:
bathhouse, conception, corner, grimy, spiders, the country, vast
«Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
At The Gates, corner, gate, New Gate, round, rounder, The New Gate
«With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
chimney, chimneys, chimney corner, comet, Comets, corner, sooth, tale