"This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state."

-- Felix Dennis

#Safety Quotes #Nannies Quotes #Modern Quotes

“I have said it before but it bears repeating: Aid is not a gift. The United States provides foreign assistance because it serves OUR interests.”
“There's a fine line between audacity and idiocy.”
“Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.”
“I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest.”
“Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.”
“[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.”

Source : "The Global Search for Education: Art in Education" by C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.
“It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.”

Source : Graham Vivian Sutherland, John T. Hayes (1977). “Portraits by Graham Sutherland”
“I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.”

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