Pulling Rank Quotes

#1. There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.

Adi Godrej

#2. In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.

Ahmed Zewail

#3. My mother told stories - of their life in the war and how she'd played the accordion in the air-raid shelter and it had got rid of the rats. Apparently rats like violins and pianos but they can't stand the accordion ...

Jeanette Winterson

#4. One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

Emil Cioran

#5. Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

John Milton

#6. The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift.

Oprah Winfrey

#7. One touch from you ... ," water coated his lips, gathered in thick drops on his dark lashes, "makes me feel more than a whole goddamned orgy.

Aleksandr Voinov