Zitat des Tages von Nigel Rees:
Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.
My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?
People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.
Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
