Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
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 (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
Morarji Desai speaks about life and celibacy
“To me it is always the people rather than the places that matter.”
Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003) British explorer
Source: Desert, Marsh and Mountain (1979), p. 122.
“What's obvious to me isn't always obvious to other people.”
Mike Watt (1957) musician, songwriter
watt bio (2005)
Henry Campbell-Bannerman (1836–1908) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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.”
Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist
Source: Motor Mouth
“People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.”
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
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.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
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