#counter

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#bar #conversations #counter #feeling #i

Sometimes, when you have someone behind the counter who's supposed to assist you and help you out, just being completely bored and uninterested - sometimes it's a little bit frustrating, you know? ↗

— Caroline Dhavernas

#behind #being #bit #bored #completely

My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts. ↗

— Wayne Wonder

#dave #encounter #first #i #kelly

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song. ↗

— Dar Williams

#amongst #encounter #go #musicians #need

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#encounter #had #now #photograph #purpose

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#constantly #counteract #education #generations #inexorable

Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly. ↗

— Adrienne Clarkson

#encounter #fearful #forget #friendly #hear

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#cook #counter #decorate #duck #granite

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#before #begin #encounter #even #first

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education. ↗

— William Glasser

#certainty #challenge #counter #domination #education