#corn

Inevitably, his vision verged toward the fantastic; he published a scattering of stories - most included in this volume - which appeared to conform to that genre at least to the degree that the fuller part of his vision could be seen as "mysteries." For Woolrich it all was fantastic; the clock in the tower, hand in the glove, out of control vehicle, errant gunshot which destroyed; whether destructive coincidence was masked in the "naturalistic" or the "incredible" was all pretty much the same to him. RENDEZVOUS IN BLACK, THE BRIDE WORE BLACK, NIGHTMARE are all great swollen dreams, turgid constructions of the night, obsession and grotesque outcome; to turn from these to the "fantastic" was not to turn at all. The work, as is usually the case with a major writer was perfectly formed, perfectly consistent, the vision leached into every area and pulled the book together. "Jane Brown's Body" is a suspense story. THE BRIDE WORE BLACK is science fiction. PHANTOM LADY is a gothic. RENDEZVOUS IN BLACK was a bildungsroman. It does not matter. ↗

— Barry N. Malzberg

#cornell-woolrich #fantastic #gothic #horror #noir

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#grill #grilling #jersey #jersey shore #lobster

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#came #corner #ever #greatest #greatest man

I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am. ↗

— Katie Couric

#become #been #corny #difficult #during

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.' ↗

— Daniel Craig

#bar #been #bond #buy #corner

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner. ↗

— David Cross

#bumper #corner #hate #i #paint

I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills. ↗

— Ice Cube

#architectural #art #because #building #class

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

#best #best way #chimney #corner #dry

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#drive #especially #every #grim #i

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#absolutely nothing #afternoon #along #any #eating