"Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas."

-- Mandell Creighton

#Ideas Quotes #Attention Quotes #Paradox Quotes

“Donâ€™t ask me why I obsessively look to rock â€™nâ€™ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess itâ€™s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.”
“You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities.”
“Good home-school educational plans have the kids in groups with other children often and consistently. Because common sense dictates that isolating people is never good and home-schooled children really benefit from being in those type of programs.”

Source : "How parents and teens can communicate without strife". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.
“It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.”

Source : "Out of the ordinary" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2004.
“An untidy, badly run house will ruin any marriage and is a disgrace to any intelligent woman.”
“Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.”
“All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.”
“I really live a simple life and don't need very much to feel good and happy. Don't get me wrong; I believe you should get what you earn. Sometimes you have to fight for it.”

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