"...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public."

-- Clive Ponting

#Opening Up Quotes #Benches Quotes #Body Quotes

“Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely leaves.”
“Only silence is great; all else is weakness.”
“I make a living from storytelling - if you're a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you're gonna end up in trouble.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.”
“Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy.”

Source : Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
“In a strange way, I don't have a job, so I have a lot of time on my hands. When I do work, it might be very concentrated, and it might be months where you're not really doing anything except maybe playing the banjo or writing something. You know, there's a lot of time in the day if you're not working 9 to 5.”
“In Fischer's hands, a slight theoretical advantage is as good a being a Queen ahead”
“There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.”

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