#counter

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#eleven #finally #i #integrated #restaurant

Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#adult #bloody #books #children #complex

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#being #city #encountered #end #ever

I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#every #i #know #life #my life

Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously. ↗

— Peter Welch

#american people #assure #chicken #control #counterparts

If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level. ↗

— Billy Higgins

#certain #come #encounter #level #music

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#best #built #curiosity #encountered #enthusiasm

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#color #counterpoint #creating #differentiate #formal

By-and-large, these are families that are just waiting to get out of here. They are frustrated; I would be, too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter when the paper runs out. ↗

— Russel Honore

#cash register #counter #families #frustrated #get

I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to try to raise the rate of growth. We've had a recovery from the financial crisis that would be well below what one might normally expect for a recovery from such a deep recession. And to counteract that we need better tax policy. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#better #counteract #crisis #deep #ethos