
Morarji Desai speaks about life and celibacy
In response to interviewer stating that he had said that the two main components of his technique were the camera and the actors.
Encountering Directors interview (1969)
Morarji Desai speaks about life and celibacy
“To me it is always the people rather than the places that matter.”
Source: Desert, Marsh and Mountain (1979), p. 122.
“What's obvious to me isn't always obvious to other people.”
watt bio (2005)
Remarks to a friend on his death bed, quoted in J. A. Spender, The Life of The Right Hon. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, G.C.B. Vol. II (1923), p. 407
Prime Minister
“Happens to me all the time… People are always underestimating my dumbness.”
Source: Motor Mouth
“People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.”
“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”
Cecil Graham, Act III
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Wherever I am, people always know
as if a spotlight were on me with its glow.”
Ch'ovunque io vada o stia,
Mi fa sempre apparir la luce mia.
Canto XXIII, stanza 36 (tr. D. R. Slavitt)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“Nobody gives a crap about ethics. That’s why people like me will always be successful.”
Source: Company (2006), p. 335