#corner

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#head #leave #moment #opinions #other

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#corners #cup #dubious #employs #find

The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies. ↗

— Raymond Sokolov

#bar #building #buildings #corner #diagonally

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#humanness #love #our #work

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#before #copper #corner #discovery #even

I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#anything #away #bar #before #book

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#causes #collapse #conditional #conditional love #cornerstones

I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear. ↗

— Rod Steiger

#big #big mistake #bit #camera #christie

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#barn #black #corner #eight #heard

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. ↗

— Dee Hock

#corner #creativity #fill #instantly #mind