P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster

P. G. Wodehouse

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• Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Made
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• 'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Chance

• No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Shine

• I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Career
  • Know
  • Independent

• I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Period

• I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Life
  • Thought

• I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Logic

• I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Time
  • Great
  • Remember

• Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Success
  • Growing
  • Yourself

• What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

  

  Larry Bird
  • World
  • Know
  • Better

• I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Music
  • Band

• Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Free

• Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Three
  • Pillars

• You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

  

  Laura Ziskin
  • Know
  • Proud
  • Movies

• Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Personality

• Don't swim up stream, baby. The future was right where you were. 23.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Up
  • Future
  • Baby

• A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Artist
  • Inspiration

• The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Time
  • Work
  • Attention

• I know as far as things like the Thunderbirds, there's a New Zealand connection. X-Files, my connection there... I mean, it could be zeitgeist. I mean, I'm into the paranormal. I have a podcast about cryptozoology. So it's out there that I'm into weird stuff.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Mean
  • Stuff
  • Connections

• NYU was my comfort zone.

  

  Amy Heckerling

• I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"

  

  Ang Lee
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Movie

• I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Mean
  • Weekend
  • Criminals