Counter Turner Quotes & Sayings

If an instrument similar to a geiger-counter could be invented that counted moral judgements instead, we would learn to duck as people became increasingly 'moral', since lethal force is usually imminent. So far from moral fervour being an alternative to force, it is frequently the overture, the accompaniment and the memorial to it. — Charles Hampden-Turner

I am not cunning...I'm good at seeing around obstacles is all. — Melinda Salisbury

It's all a fucking trap, owning things, places, people. The way I see it, we don't own things. We get owned. — Christopher Bollen

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money. — Lisa Bonet

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race. — Edward Abbey

The time between two seconds was immeasurable, and though I knew our moment would come to an end, it would be a limitless one. We were two halves of one being who had at last found each other and come together in this union. — Nicole Williams

In my planet, fashion, I'm the only straight man. — Roberto Cavalli

She [Theresa May] is the right choice to lead Britain in a challenging period and will make a truly outstanding prime minister. — Jeremy Hunt

BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind. — Ambrose Bierce

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. — Paul Klee

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile. — F Scott Fitzgerald

But from where he was standing, he could see her perfectly: the wavy red hair and the oversize T-shirt with a smiling lobster on the front, the way her legs were tucked up beneath her on the swing, and the freckles across her nose. He could see her, and it was just like he'd thought. It was just like being punched in the stomach. — Jennifer E. Smith

You can't do better than that. — Jack White

First you're going to get your sweet little ass down from there and bend over the counter while I show you who the fuck is boss around here. — Alyssa Turner