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'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

• 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

• 'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Me

• Sentit enim vis quisque suas quoad possit abuti.cornua nata prius vitulo quam frontibus extent,illis iratus petit atque infestus inurget.

  

  Lucretius

• Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

  

  Mariel Hemingway
  • Real

• Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Tennis
  • motivation
  • Chess

• I deteriorate. I might tell you something one day and then something else another day. You fold in on yourself and that's why this whole artistry thing is the devil. It's evil. I hope I don't succumb to it.

  

  Willis Earl Beal
  • Day
  • Devil
  • Artistry

• Prince and I happen to think alike.

  

  Vanity
  • Think
  • Prince
  • Happen

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

  

  P. G. Wodehouse