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Sari Quotes

That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

"In today's cinema, it is difficult to say who the heroine is and who is the vamp: Tanuja in conversation with daughter Kajol". Interview with Prachi Bhuchar and Prachi Rege, indiatoday.intoday.in. December 14, 2012.

I feel more comfortable in saris than gowns.

"Ek Deewana Tha's Amy Jackson talks Bollywood!". Interview with Nila Choudhury, urbanasian.com. February 9, 2012.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.24

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Frederick Soddy's speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1922.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

Catch-22 (1961) ch. 5 (the first chapter of this novel was published as Catch-18 in New World Writing (1955) No. 7 - see Kiley and MacDonald "Catch-22" Casebook (1973) 294)

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.32

My adversary is the world of finance.

"François Hollande: from marshmallow man to Sarkozy's nemesis?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2012.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke ...”, p.474