Corridors Quotes - Page 3

• God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

  Sylvia Plath

  Laughter, Self, Tears

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.13, Anchor

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• I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

  William Butler Yeats

  Atheist, Mystery, Agree

  Letter to George William Russell, July 01, 1921.

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• I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  J. K. Rowling

  What Matters, Careers, Long

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• Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand side..." "No?" said Arthur grimly as he walked along beside him. "Really?" "Oh yes," said Marvin, "I mean I've asked for them to be replaced but no one ever listens." "I can imagine.

  Douglas Adams

  Pain, Mean, Hands

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• The reason why so many of my photographs in the book were taken in stairwells and corridors was that that was the only bit of spare space available and, in some cases, the only place where there was enough light to see anything. Even then, it was often so dark that I couldn't tell which gender my subject was (not that I particularly cared) and too dark, before the era of autofocus, to focus. I had to find a light (or carry a torch) and pre-focus.

  Derek Ridgers

  Book, Taken, Dark

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term ‘imaginary’ shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).

  Thomas Pynchon

  Exotic, Affliction, Shapes

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• But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dark, Doors, Ends

  Gustave Flaubert, Geoffrey Wall (1992). “Madame Bovary: provincial lives”, Penguin USA

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• Look,' I said, struggling to keep up, 'I just wanna make one thing absolutely clear. I don't believe in guns. I just want peace. Okay?' Alessandro stopped in the middle of the corridor, took out the gun, and wrapped my hand around it before I realized what he was doing. 'Can you feel that? That's a gun. It exists. And there are a lot of people out there who do believe in it. So, excused me for taking care of them so you can have your peace.

  Anne Fortier

  Believe, Struggle, Gun

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.175, Ballantine Books

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• When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Reality, Thinking

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• But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.

  Stephen L. Carter

  School, Order, Joy

  "The Emperor of Ocean Park". Book by Stephen L. Carter, April 1, 2002.

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• Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

  Germaine Greer

  Hotel, Invited, Has Beens

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• In the chummy corridors of the liberal media establishment, no self-satisfying myth is more prevalent than the notion that there are two types of national news networks. The first is Fox, the fiendishly opinionated, Roger-Ailes-manipulated Republican Party organ. The second is the non-Fox establishment, serenely gliding above the political fray on a magic carpet of nonpartisan open-mindedness.

  L. Brent Bozell III

  Party, Self, Media

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• If at times my eyes are lenses through which the brain explores constellations of feeling my ears yielding like swinging doors admit princes to the corridors into the mind, do not envy me. I have a beast on my back.

  Gavin Douglas

  Eye, Doors, Envy

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• The earth's warmth under me, as I stretch out at night, is astonishing. It is like the warmth of another body that has absorbed the sun all day and now gives out again its store of heat. It is softer, darker than I could ever have believed, and when I take a handful of it and smell its extraordinary odors, I know suddenly what it is I am composed of, as if the energy that is in this fistful of black soil had suddenly opened, between my body and it, as between it and the green stalks, some corridor along which our common being flowed.

  David Malouf

  Nature, Night, Smell

  David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.147, Random House

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• Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.

  Alex Grey

  Doors, Secret, Mountain

  Esperide Ananas, Alex Grey (2006). “Damanhur: Temples of Humankind”, p.7, North Atlantic Books

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• The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal

  Emily Dickinson

  Loneliness, Dark, Soul

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.588, Harvard University Press

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• One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.

  Emily Dickinson

  Self, House, Brain

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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• Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.

  Jimmy Reid

  Jobs, Boys, Government

  "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.

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• It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

  Stone Gossard

  Thinking, Cities, City Streets

  Active Living Network Interview, www.activeliving.org.

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• The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor.

  Stephen Gardiner

  House, Found

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I inadvertently entered into this world where people wore bicycle clips and did song-and-dance routines in the corridors.

  Nick Moran

  Song, Drama, School

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.

  John Drinkwater

  Sleep, Moon, Apples

  'Moonlit Apples' (1917)

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• So when I'm killed, don't wait for me, Walking the dim corridor; In Heaven or Hell, don't wait for me, Or you must wait for evermore. You'll find me buried, living-dead In these verses that you've read.

  Robert Graves

  Waiting, Heaven, Hell

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• Whether on the floor of Congress or in the boardrooms of corporate America or in the corridors of a big city hospital, there is no body of professional expertise and no anthology of case studies which can supplant the force of character which provides both a sense of direction and a means of fulfillment. It asks, not what you want to be, but who you want to be.

  Elizabeth Dole

  Character, Mean, Cities

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• Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind ... To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.

  Rose Macaulay

  Moving, Writing, Mind

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.148, A&C Black

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