Santha Rama Rau Quotes

#1. It is in the oral traditions of the villages that the arts of India are really alive. The brief Western immortality of museums is pointless to people who have seen eternity in their earth.

Santha Rama Rau

#2. War is always an adventure to those who've never seen it.

Anthony Ryan

#3. India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are important to them.

Santha Rama Rau

#4. Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#5. To the Indian, politics are what the weather is to an Englishman. Politics are an introduction to a stranger on a train, they are the standard filler for embarrassing silences in conversation, they are the inevitable small talk at any social gathering.

Santha Rama Rau

#6. The best thing about the Nikita show is that there's so many layers. Even after the pilot, the next four have a twist. Don't think that you've seen it all or that you know it now, and that it's not going to have any more surprises. There's a surprise in every episode, so it's a lot to keep track of.

Lyndsy Fonseca

#7. Because in Australia there really isn't a lot to do. There aren't a lot of opportunities.

Radha Mitchell

#8. We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.

Kevin Smokler