#corner

The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the toil of centuries, gave hundreds of millions more a life of ease and plenty, and, by allowing great cities to feed themselves from every corner of the world, multiplied the population of the earth fivefold. ↗

— James Buchan

#began #centuries #cities #corner #earth

A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles. ↗

— Jenson Button

#because #being #breaking #car #corner

My favourite restaurant is the Thai Corner Cafe on St Paul's Road. We go there all the time. I shouldn't really mention it - I don't want it to be chock-a-block. ↗

— Alan Davies

#corner #favourite #go #i #mention

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#because #corner #course #group #i

Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that. ↗

— Christopher Lambert

#because #cornered #feel #got #i

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

— Pierre Loti

#corner #desert #kingdom #mournful #sand

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile. ↗

— Gerald Massey

#corner #delight #expectancy #greet #heed

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#alone #always #being #corners #head

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#breaking #cell #cell phones #corner #every

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

#building #case #corner #fence #gate