"Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life."

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Earth Quotes #May Quotes #Precious Things Quotes

“Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.”
“Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?”
“In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.”
“Generally risk-averse, specialist translation imprints have also hollowed out a fairly comfortable niche for themselves: they get ninety percent of the profits for ten percent of the work, often largely funding their operations - and their salaries - through grants that they don't even apply for. If it wasn't for publicly-funded arts bodies and organizations such as PEN, I wouldn't have been able to work on either [Abdellatif] LaÃ¢bi or [ Rashid ] Boudjedra.”
“I completely appreciate the importance of fathers but millions of children are without loving homes. I think a child is lucky with one parent who truly loves her.”
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”
“Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.”
“When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?”

Source : "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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