Counterpoints Exploring Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet. — Ogden Nash

Whats good for the bacon;
Stinks for the pig. — Natas Reverse

I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was ... well, pretty Hollywood. — Jay Ryan

I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy. — Ed Asner

Time is the ultimate wealth. — Sunday Adelaja

Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks; fiction is flowing water. — Elif Shafak

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal. — Lorde

Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important. — Kelis

I have no desire to cherish each person's bullshit and call it a beautiful snowflake. — Penny Reid

The very things in your life that seem
to be depressing and oppressing you
right now are going to be the means
by which you set yourself free. — James Lecesne

And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing. — Karl Ove Knausgard

A lot of shows have couples with issues inside the relationship. — Michael Trucco

The hand is a symbol of humanity, part of what makes us human - the hand that carved the Parthenon, painted the hands of God and Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and wrote King Lear was the only hand that had known smallpox. That same hand had now given the disease to a monkey. — Richard Preston

Autumn

The season between summer and winter,
comprising in the Northern Hemisphere
usually the months of September,
October and November.

A period of maturity. — Cecelia Ahern