Rajya Quotes

#1. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#2. I believe I did succeed in making Indian uslims look upon me as a friend: when I was nominated to be a member of the Rajya Sabha many said, "We have another Muslim in Parliament." Others who disliked my views called me an unpaid agent of Pakistan. I treated both views as compliments.

Khushwant Singh

#3. I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no! Genuine poetry is not the scum of the heart.

Gustave Flaubert

#4. I really do believe the camera steals the soul. But that may be because I'm worried about my soul. I don't have much of a soul to begin with; I can't afford to lose much.

Hugh Laurie

#5. I have the right credentials to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha.

Cyrus Broacha

#6. I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

David McCullough

#7. Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#8. In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

Matt Dillon

#9. Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

Camilo Jose Cela