Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them. – Prince Of Wales Charles
Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank. – Rose Macaulay
I have run a general election campaign pregnant and ran Ed Milibands leadership campaign commuting to London with a new baby so I already have my system set up. – Lucy Powell
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. – Robert M. Hutchins
All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. – William Shakespeare
