Contrapuntal Quotes

#1. The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

Glenn Gould

#2. I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out moment by moment with its contrapuntal songs, as if a band of musicians were at play, all of them with Lincoln's beard and disturbing grey eyes.

Jerome Charyn

#3. I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.

Robert Motherwell

#4. A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

Jerry Saltz

#5. We're partners."
"Huh?"
"We. Are. Partners,

J. Lynn

#6. West Ham play a speficic type of game - football.

Artur Boruc

#7. African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival rates are worse among African-Americans for colon, prostate and ovarian cancers as well.

Frank C. Garland

#8. Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.

Waite Hoyt

#9. As long as you have breath, YOU have a chance!

Sanjo Jendayi

#10. You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it.

James Pinckney Miller

#11. It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.

Laozi

#13. There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play ... a bar that's half full.

Julian Casablancas

#14. Anthony glared at his brother, then for good measure at Miss Sheffield, who was looking at him as if he'd just despoiled ten virgins in her presence.

Julia Quinn

#15. he was the friend who would become an enemy in order to remain a friend. 3

Anne Bishop

#16. ... why would Caesar fear Ovid, except for knowing that neither his divinity nor all his legions could protect him from a good line of poetry.

Tobias Wolff

#17. ... if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

Clive Barker

#18. The Korean word for tree rose in his mind, surprising him, like a fish breaking the surface of a calm pond.

Sun Yung Shin

#19. It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world.

Avigdor Lieberman