"Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for."

-- Tibor Kalman

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Information Quotes

“Prince Harry is a great guy, very competitive; he's been playing polo all his life. Riding is in his blood. His grandmother loves horses, his grandfather played polo, his father played polo, his brother plays polo, so it's in his blood. He likes to play hard, we joke about it and it's great.”
“There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.”
“I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.”
“Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise guru will not attempt to wake people up. I hope I'm going to be wise here and make no attempt whatsoever to wake you up if you are asleep. It is really none of my business, even though I say to you at times, "Wake up!" My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it fine; if you don't, too bad! As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens."”
“My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.”
“The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.”
“But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?”

Source : Hans Christian Andersen, Jean Hersholt (1948). “Hans Christian Andersen's Shorter Tales”
“Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End.”

Source : On the House of Commons, in 'Big Cyril' (1977) ch. 8

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