"Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life."

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Source : Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.19, Emblem Editions

Anne Michaels

#Ordinary Quotes #Matter Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I feel very honored and special really. You can't imagine, to arrive at the Oscars when you arrive so low, and you can't go further than the Oscars.”
“Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.”
“Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours.”

Source : Mary Howitt (1855). “Birds and flowers and other country things [in verse].”, p.11
“The biggest problem that the world has is nuclear weapons. Global warming is not our big problem. Our big problem is the maniacs that are controlling weaponry that has never been like it is today.”
“Shut up or I'll kill you.”
“If you take Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, their work didn't even relate to what we were trying to do, because they were moving in a different direction, both of them coming out of Europe and the Viennese school of design, which Lucie came from, and Coper learning from Lucie and then springing off on his own when she encouraged him to explore more widely. So he created his own work instead of just working for her and doing her forms. So that was a wonderful thing.”
“Passion is like genius: a miracle.”

Source : Romain Rolland (1938). “Jean Christophe”
“When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.”

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