Cornered Quotes
Words for when the walls close in.
Nobody plans to end up with their back against the wall, yet these lines keep returning to that exact spot — the second before you either freeze or fight. One writer even compares reading a tough book to being cornered into a long, uncomfortable reckoning. If that resonates, the Acceptance quotes make a fitting next stop.
I feel empathy wherever and whenever someone feels cornered in life. Whenever someone puts in sweat and blood and does not get the acceptance and appreciation one deserves, I resonate with it.
Popular Quotes Topics for You.
I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
Acceptance Quotes
I made a decision to live outside the city in northern California. My agent said to me, 'Kid, you're going to make a mint in television movies.' He positioned me, and we picked really good projects, and I cornered that...
Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.
A man is, after all, what he loves. But one always feels cornered when asked to explain why one loves this or that person, and what for. In order to explain it - which inevitably amounts to explaining oneself -...
Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving...
I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I think that's common among writers if they get cornered on something.
Actor Quotes
I think I've cornered the market at playing ineffectual. I think I'm quite accomplished at it.
Now I don't want to feel cornered as an actor, because I've got a wider range than that.
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'
From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle...
Adult Quotes
Way before musicians and actors cornered the market on misbehavior, writers were flooding hotel rooms and testing their livers' upper limits.
My uncle used to fight Vale Tudo, and my mother even cornered him in some of his fights.
