"The materials I use are absolutely essential to the work I make."

-- David Batchelor

#Essentials Quotes #Use Quotes #Materials Quotes

“We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.”
“Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.”
“To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.”
“Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!”
“I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.”
“Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.”
“Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American.”
“We must walk before we run.”

Source : George Henry Borrow (1851). “Lavengro: the scholar--the gypsy--the priest”, p.15

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