If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.
They only babble who practise not reflection.
A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.
Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble.
Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
The background of a mayor of a city of any size is a background of somebody who on one hand is an executive and on the other hand is very close to the ground.
The people who are backing the Remain campaign are people who have done very well, thank you, out of the European Union.
I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.
There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.
Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that.
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.