P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Rules

• I want to work with the best coaches in the world.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • World
  • Work
  • Best

• Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Money
  • Success

• I would have loved to have met Buster Keaton.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Loved
  • Would
  • Buster

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Up
  • Never
  • Body

• I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • World
  • Age
  • Myself

• One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I definitely think independent film is very exciting, and you get to sometimes take bigger risks. So that's always a challenge and something that I look forward to.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Think
  • Challenge
  • Independent

• I have crazy eyebrows, so it's crucial to tame them. Just like your hair, they set off your features.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Crazy
  • Hair
  • Eyebrows

• While a lot of what is on Facebook is a better amalgam of what AOL, Yahoo, Amazon, and other Web pioneers introduced long ago, with a nice dash of connection and really identified community, this kind of thing is not a new idea.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Long
  • Community
  • Nice

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • London
  • Feel Good

• The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Travel
  • Once
  • Roads

• What position didn't I play last season?

  

  Aaron Hill
  • Play
  • Season
  • Last

• 'Animal Ark', was when I was fourteen years old, and it was an ITV children's program, and I did an episode called, 'Bunnies in the Bathroom.' And I'm not sure if it was my finest hour.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Children
  • Animal
  • Old

• Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Money
  • Pretty

• I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Proud
  • Cheap

• I love kids, outings, camping, sports, Legoland, all the Daddy stuff. I love it. I wish I could just do that, but I have to work, too.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Wish

• I follow all these fashion blogs that are cool and inspire me. I'm not really obsessed with anyone except for the people that I like romantically. I get excited when they post. Sometimes I like to stalk my exes.

  

  Kylie Jenner
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Cool

• I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Success
  • Health
  • Goals

• A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse