President Bush says we've turned the corner in Iraq. What is that, about 16 corners we've turned? I think they call that running in circles.
FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.
I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
The future isn't something hidden in a corner. The future is something we build in the present.
Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the diaphragm. . . the mouth is open more or less widely, with the corners drawn much backwards, as well as a little upwards; and the upper lip is somewhat raised.
Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners
The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.
I went around the corner to motion pictures.
Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened.
What I'm interested in is happiness with a full awareness of the tragedy of life, the potential tragedy that lurks around every corner and the tragedy that actually is life.
All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!
Anne "felt instinctively" that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
If only I could be hidden in a corner, so as not to be tempted to worry about things that are not really my business.
Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds.
Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.
there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.
Fear is something you have to throw into a corner. Constantly. Because it never goes away.
Our house is our corner of the world.
I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.