Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
flower book garden
I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.
cat umpires balls
I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.
illumination drunk support
Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.
cat animal wheels
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
blue joy ancient
There's a joy without canker or cark, There's a pleasure eternally new, 'T is to gloat on the glaze and the mark Of china that's ancient and blue.
country book beer
You can cover a great deal of country in books.
beautiful memorable fairy
Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.
funny humorous men
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
two laughing people
Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.
country hate people
Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
hate people individual
I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
comedy comic middle
You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
book thinking years
I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or European writers, I realised that there was an articulate way or a language to express all these feelings that I had had for years and years and so I became a raging feminist as a young woman.
years world years-ago
The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.