I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did - all of these peoples' lives went on.

- Bill Bryson

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

- Ben Nicholas

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

- Bruce Paltrow

I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

- Bruce Coville

My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.

- Bonnie Blair

I actually feel like I have developed friendships through Twitter, people that I've worked with I can kind of keep up with them. I've totally turned a corner. I get it. And Instagram.

- Bryan Greenberg

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

- Bruce Willis

I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.

- Bjork

A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.

- Bjork

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

- Billy Corgan

When you get to be nearly 60, you do take stock. You don't know what's around the corner.

- Annie Lennox

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

- Barack Obama

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

- Alan Coren

Nobody puts Roach in the corner.

- Alexandra Roach

We were very young in Duran, and to get pushed in a corner can be very difficult to get out of.

- Andy Taylor

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

- Arthur Helps

I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.

- Andre Holland

If I avoid anything, it's that I don't really go to places that are like a little corner of England. I also never mind going to a dance show because I love it all so much.

- Anton du Beke

Anything called the Teflon Corner is not sweet for free-soloing.

- Alex Honnold