I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over. . . to have a look at me.
The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.
The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.
In political activity. . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.
Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this sense, families, clubs, and learned societies have their 'politics'. But the communities in which this manner of activities is pre-eminent are the hereditary co-operative groups, many of them of ancient lineage, all of them aware of a past, a present and a future, which we call states.
[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly.
If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.
Why should young people look for guides who hang out gided placards to advertise themselves? They would do better to look for friends, unite with them, and advance together towards some quarter where it seems possible to survive.
What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.