Point Count Bidding

Famous quotes containing the words point, count and/or bidding:

“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

“The beginnings of altruism can be seen in children as early as the age of two. How then can we be so concerned that they count by the age of three, read by four, and walk with their hands across the overhead parallel bars by five, and not be concerned that they act with kindness to others?”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)

“A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)