"The BBC said I could stay on air until I was named. Well, I was named within the week. So I made no broadcasts after I'd been arrested, and the BBC stopped paying me at precisely the time when I needed the money most."

-- Paul Gambaccini

#Air Quotes #Week Quotes #Made Quotes

“If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also pays good wages, but with lower educational requirements. And America's infrastructure needs are enormous.”

Source : "Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment?" by Christina Romer, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2012.
“London always reminds me of a brain. It is similarly convoluted and circuitous. A lot of cities, especially American ones like New York and Chicago, are laid out in straight lines. Like the circuits on computer chips, there are a lot of right angles in cities like this. But London is a glorious mess. It evolved from a score or so of distinct villages, that merged and meshed as their boundaries enlarged. As a result, London is a labyrinth, full of turnings and twistings just like a brain.”

Source : "On London". jamesgeary.com. July 16, 2006.
“We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.”
“I try to avoid political ties.”
“Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.”

Source : William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”
“I dont plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.”
“People love stories. They need stories.”

Source : "Caroline Leavitt, Best-selling Author, On Overcoming Nasty Writing Teachers, How to Write a Bestseller and Never Giving Up". Interview with David Henry Sterry, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.
“This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.”

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