"I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary."

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Source : "Michael Craig-Martin: Up close and impersonal". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2011.

Michael Craig-Martin

#Extraordinary Quotes #Values Quotes

“The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.”
“There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.”
“Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.”
“Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breastAnd by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest.Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled.The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead”
“You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend”
“Hamas hides among unwitting civilians, who have no way of controlling its activities. This fact does not give Israel the right to kill innocent non-combatants, not even unintentionally. Besides, murder is not 'unintentional' when you know it is inevitable.”
“It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."”
“A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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