"Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens."

-- Tom Hodgkinson

#Citizens Quotes #Doe Quotes #Busy Quotes

“I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.”

Source : Ed Koch (2011). “The Little Red Book of New York Wisdom”, p.95, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Love draws forth love.”
“We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.”
“You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?”
“I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He sent me a letter before I swam the Channel to wish me luck.”
“My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.”
“The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.”

Source : Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”
“Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.”

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