(626 quotes found)
“I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.”
Alan Greenspan
“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.”
Pink Floyd
“A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners”
Irish Sayings
“An old broom knows the dirty corners best.”
Irish Proverb
“Look for intelligence and judgment and, most critically, a capacity to anticipate, to see around corners. Also look for loyalty, integrity, a high energy drive, a balanced ego and the drive to get things done.”
Colin Powell
“She flung herself full-length on the stage, drummed with her feet and, taking the corner of a small Persian rug in her teeth, worried it [while] I sat rigid and appalled on the sofa, pressed back against the chintz cushions.”
Alec Guinness
“When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.”
Bruce Barton
“It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?”
Dizzy Dean
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner. [Johnny Castle]”
Dirty Dancing
“If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.”
Rupert Brooke
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