"One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"...The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."

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Source : Michael Frayn (2016). “Collected Columns”, p.110, Faber & Faber

Michael Frayn

#Fog Quotes #Guarantees Quotes #Taj Mahal Quotes

“Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.”
“What's highest and best for you is always what's highest and best for everyone around you.”
“So tonight I propose one more step that I would rather not propose. I ask the most fortunate among us, those citizens earning over $100,000 per year, for one year, to pay an additional one percent on the income they receive.”
“The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting Indias diversity.”
“Utopia's quite another land; In her enterprising movements, She is England--with improvements”
“My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.”
“I don't think there's a ton of new new stuff about doing a sitcom or doing a multi-camera show, but they work. They're fun, and they're energetic, and they're short. And when you fall in love with one - like, I will watch Seinfeld, I'll watch Will & Grace, all those reruns. I just can never get enough. I watch the same ones over and over and over. I watch the same movies that make me laugh over and over and over. I was hoping to be part of something like that.”

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“I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can't hurt a bug.”

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