I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.
It has been the bankers' destiny. . . to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to. . the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').
I think “The Book of Mormon” has made that difference in its field. It changed the game. It’s something that 20 years from now people will still be talking about, hopefully. That’s my goal as an artist, as a creator, as a work for hire, is to choose projects that make people think, make people talk, and make people interested in having a dialogue.
Love is a dangerous angel.
The vast majority, who believe in astrology and think that the planets have nothing better to do than form a code that will tell them whether tomorrow is a good day to close a business deal or not, become all the more excited and enthusiastic.
I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.