P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the 'Blue Danube' and shove some tea into ourselves. And over the pot and muffins I shall have something veryimportant to say to you.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
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Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
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I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.
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The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.
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I did my doctoral dissertation on the lectionary readings that we use at mass and how you have biblical texts that have been taken out of their original Bible context and put together for mass, and now they form a new text. Out of that new text, there is an interplay of new meaning.
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In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.
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...what I feel we ought to do at this juncture is to dash off somewhere where it's quiet and there aren't so many housesdancing the 'Blue Danube' and shove some tea into ourselves. And over the pot and muffins I shall have something veryimportant to say to you.
