Top 20 Cornered Quotes

Adult Swim has cornered this really cool market, especially for comedy shows.

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 their research.

We can all be cornered and victimized and bullied by someone who’s trying to take our contextual clues of our personality or appearance, the circumstantial, and trying to make that evidence to fit their narrative. That’s very scary.

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.

Usually, someone who’s in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can’t walk out if I don’t like it.

If I ever called myself an activist, I regret it, and I was cornered into it by an industry who couldn’t justify me taking up space without saying that I had some kind of radical political agenda because they saw my participation as a radical political thing. Which it was not.

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.

Way before musicians and actors cornered the market on misbehavior, writers were flooding hotel rooms and testing their livers’ upper limits.

No, I never felt cornered because I was not a big director’s son or a star’s son.

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 and neither side has cornered the market.

I think I’ve cornered the market at playing ineffectual. I think I’m quite accomplished at it.

The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they’ve cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they’ve defeated us. From there, the modern Indian rights movement started, and it was a very hard fight, with a lot of stuff going against them.

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 – one has to try to love the object of one’s attention a little bit less.

Heroes aren’t born, they’ re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

I don’t think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

Now I don’t want to feel cornered as an actor, because I’ve got a wider range than that.

I don’t think I’ve ever been either militant or profound as an anti-Fascist. When the issue has come up, when certain things have come up, and I’ve been called on to express – literally, when I’ve been cornered, then I take a left-wing stand.

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.’

My uncle used to fight Vale Tudo, and my mother even cornered him in some of his fights.

Reading Stephen King’s book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.