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"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner." »Aldous Huxley
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"You can not write in the chimney with charcoal." »Assyrian Proverb
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"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney." »James Burke
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"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." »Aldous Huxley
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"God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them." »Stephen William Hawking
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"Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him." »Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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"I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on." »Roosevelt, Eleanor
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"Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say somethign." »Frank Crane
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"Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth corner, Vermont." »Clarence Darrow
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"Still round the corner there may wait,
A new road or a secret gate." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"During the Middle Ages, probably one of the biggest mistakes was not putting on your armor because you were 'just going down to the corner.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief." »Fernandez de Andrada
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"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds." »John Maynard Keynes
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"Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn." »Anouk Aimee
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"Many a man that couldn't direct you to the drug store on the corner when he was 3 will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind." »Finley Peter Dunne
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"How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people." »Carl Sagan
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"There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide." »Norman Douglas
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"I used to date homeless chicks, they weren't very picky and at the end of the date you could just drop them off at any corner." »Tom Zegan
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"None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives." »Kathleen Norris
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"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark." »Samuel Johnson
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"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds." »Thomas Higginson
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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door." »Albert Camus
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"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it." »Dee Hock
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"Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet." »Jeff Melvoin
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"Hello, everybody. Welcome to Kiner's corner. This is....uh. I'm...uhRalph Kiner" »Ralph Kiner
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"I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you." »Wayne Gretzky
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