"I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Latin Quotes #School Quotes #Italian Quotes

“By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an unfair game with the reader where he (of course) would ask himself "Did this really happen?"”
“Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the worldâ€™s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is peopleâ€”especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with libertyâ€”who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well.”
“I am not a number, I am a free man!”

Source : "The Prisoner". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1967 - 1968.
“If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.”
“To be premature is to be perfect”
“Particularly with the plays I choose, they're good parts, and they're parts that have been around long before a bad actor played them, and will be around long after I play them. Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.”
“Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when [Benazir Bhutto] failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her first two years in government during her first term and in fact had a tenure that was marked not only by gross corruption but by human rights abuses, that should have been a time for people to say, "Well, OK, we've given you an opportunity and you haven't bettered the institutions, you haven't strengthened the democratic cause - we may not vote you back."”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au
“If something comes from your heart, it will reach the heart of your audience.”

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