Counterspectacle Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence. — Cormac McCarthy

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It started to rain overhead, big sloppy droplets, but only in their immediate vicinity of about five feet. However, this being England, no one was particularly flummoxed even by such a particularly localized, extraordinarily specific example of maudlin weather. — Vera Nazarian

I scored in a World Cup and I want that buzz again. — Jermain Defoe

And I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too.
A long way to go. — Jack Kerouac

Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well. - Joe Vitale
True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right. — Walter Inglis Anderson

He had never killed anyone before. He still felt the same. The pistol had done the killing, not him. The man had set if off himself, as a consequence of his own idiotic actions. — Alan Dean Foster

Gutman smiled benignly at him and said: Well, Wilmer, I'm sorry indeed to lose you, and I want you to know that I couldn't be any fonder of you if you were my own son; but - well, by Gad! - if you lose a son it's possible to get another - and there's only one Maltese falcon. — Dashiell Hammett

Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me. — Malala Yousafzai

Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection — C.S. Lewis

If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself. — Jay Leno

Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel. — John Ruskin

Cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household ... — Charles Baudelaire

The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act. — Lawrence Halprin