Quotes & Sayings About Arain

To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as well as those at some distance from both the capital or an appropriate airport - is perverse, but also dangerous to democracy. — David Blunkett

So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many of the ancients the consummation of mathematics-would be by far the most outstanding. This art which is as it were the head of all the liberal arts and the one most worthy of a free man leans upon nearly all the other branches of mathe matics. Arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service. — Nicolaus Copernicus

Even as China's growth slows, it will continue to be a powerhouse for the global economy. — George Osborne

Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them. — Robert James Waller

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness. — Tom Wolfe

No one believes in God any more, but everyone believes in Bach — Mauricio Kagel

Fear is a Dangerous Animal.
Best kept on a short leash ... — William Curtis

I think about her. I think about the first time I saw her.. I had a book in my hand and I was reading and for some reason I looked up ... She didn't see me. She didn't see me, but I saw her. — James Frey

I am not of that feather, to shake off my friend when he must need me — William Shakespeare

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way! — Annette Bening

The truth may set you free. It won't fill your fuel tank. — Mira Grant