“I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.” YearsPoliticalUsedFatherRoomsPartyLeaderSubjectsMembersPrisonCongressBritishFighterEveningLiving RoomUnfamiliarProminentFreedom FighterLocalityCongress Party Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.” HeartSaidBookSeemsBeautifulReadingSpeakHeavenRoomsGraceTablesGratefulRoundsBritishMuseumsReverenceSpeak The TruthBirthrightBritish MuseumBeautiful BooksReading Room Author:William Makepeace Thackeray
“British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."” FilmRoomsViewsBritishPondsStaircasesRoom With A ViewBritish Film Author:Ben Dreyfuss
“I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.” PersonsAmericaRoomsFashionClothesMalesBritishClothes And FashionBest Dressed Author:Tom Odell
“If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.” IfsMenShouldBelieveLittlesI BelieveEasyRoomsTwentiesBritishSmokeChairsMuseumsLightingExhibitsBritish MuseumGood Lighting Author:J. B. Priestley
“I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room: except, perhaps, in the reading room of the British Museum.” IfsHumansSpiritReadingRoomsWonderWrittenBritishEnormousMuseumsHuman SpiritBritish MuseumReading Room Book:Civilisation Source: Civilisation