C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 30, 1909 - March 9, 1993

Topics

GovernmentPeopleRichWillPoor

I don't like that word: feminist.

Megyn Kelly

LikeWordFeminist

At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

Angela Merkel

LiveBeginningRealityCountrySaid

I always used the free room that the G.D.R. allowed me... There was no shadow over my childhood.

Angela Merkel

ChildhoodShadowMeFreeOverRoom

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

Jeanette Winterson

SchoolMindEveryoneBeingBecause

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

Steve Guttenberg

LovePowerMoneyYouFameWorking

It's amazing how directly you can connect with people via social media.

Sophia Amoruso

Social MediaPeopleAmazingMedia

I guess my first professional experience was when my church choir director told my mother that I had a gift with my voice and said that I should think about auditioning, at 11 years old, for the chorus of our regional opera company.

Sondra Radvanovsky

MotherExperienceGiftVoiceThink

I'm as Scottish as they come.

Stevie Jackson

ComeScottish

It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.

Michelle Williams

LifeWorkMindTalkingPersonal

Nearly all children have a feeling for rhythm in words, for the delicate pattern of nursery rhymes. Many adults have lost this feeling and, if they read verse at all, demand a far cruder music than that which they once appreciated.

Louis MacNeice

MusicChildrenWordsFeelingLost

You know, I'm one of millions of undocumented people in this country who are living kind of under the shadows. And in many ways, coming out, it was my way of - at the end of the day, I think we have to tell the truth about this immigration system. And because of that, I had to tell the truth about myself.

Jose Antonio Vargas

TruthMyselfDayPeopleThinkEnd

I don't see myself as being a heart-throb at all.

Dominic Cooper

MyselfSeeBeing

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