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In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen.
~ Theo Jansen
Take my words, and fling Them down on the counter roundly; See if they ring.
~ D.H. Lawrence
When light walks into a room, the darkness rolls back like a scroll." He paused, his eyes narrowing. "It has to. Darkness can't stand light. And it has no counter for it.
~ Charles Martin
An ant crawled across the counter. Lucy shuddered and watched it disappear under the metal edge of the sink. Dad said everything had a right to live, but Lucy didn't think that ought to include bugs.
~ Chet Williamson
I don't think drag will ever be mainstream because it's counter to what the mainstream directive is, which is picking an identity and sticking with it for the rest of your life.
~ RuPaul
I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.
~ Scarlett Johansson
Most of the states of Europe had no prospect of social transformation, and thus little ability to rival or counter the Nazis and the Soviets.
~ Timothy Snyder
Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them.
~ Nana Patekar
I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me.
~ Ice Cube
If someone criticizes me, I strike back.
~ Romario
NightWings will try to counter your sarcasm with more sarcasm, as though every conversation is a competition to see whose wit is more biting. No one ever stops to acknowledge that someone else was funny.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
It's hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don't even know about.
~ Holly Black
Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it." Jaine recited her number and listened to the spewing noise as Shelley Cheez-Whizzed it on her countertop.
~ Linda Howard
understanding and effectively countering the antagonists' methods through creative means
~ Linda Robinson
What strikes me as people in diners rail at each other at the counter when before they ate in silence is not how imperiled they feel, but how safe. Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. But
~ Lionel Shriver
She turns off her phone and she rests it on the kitchen counter and feels a wave of relief and weightlessness pass through her. She is unburdened of something she hadn't even known she was carrying.
~ Lisa Jewell
I believe that my impact is being a threat on the field, being a versatile player on the field that you have to counter, whether it be running the ball, catching the ball out of the backfield, special teams, line up in the slot.
~ Saquon Barkley
I found Albatross Airlines down at the far end of the terminal. A woman in a brown uniform stood behind the counter. She was about fifty, with a leathery face that looked like my cab driver's twin. I wondered if she was the girlfriend of my new friend on the dock. For his sake, I hoped not.
~ Jeff Lindsay
When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.
~ Rufus Sewell
There are two different kinds of spectacular fighters. One is a subtle counter puncher who shows the work like chess. It's kind of an art, sports art. The other kind is when a guy has blood on all his body. That's a second kind of spectacular fighter, and people enjoy both. Both kind of fighters need to be respected.
~ Oleksandr Usyk
On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity.
~ Vanna Bonta
I was fighting fire with fire, and I responded to propaganda with more of the same.
~ Peter Hessler
The dreamy guy at this Starbucks wasn't working the counter. Instead he was working a broom behind it, smiling as he swept. At first I didn't get the smile, but then I realized he was listening to the radio, to Norah Jones sliding her voice around he notes. In his own way, he was dancing alone.
~ David Levithan
Also feel free to give every ex a number somewhere on his costume, like this is the deli counter from dating hell. Whatever works.
~ David Levithan