P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • World
  • Small
  • Cuba

• History is not hatred.

  

  Malcolm X
  • History
  • Hatred

• In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • May
  • Religious
  • Teach

• I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Soccer

• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Mind
  • You
  • Practice

• What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Live
  • Like
  • Jazz

• If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • World
  • Why
  • Look

• I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Think
  • Man
  • Unique

• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Looks
  • Dreams
  • Inside

• Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Long
  • Better
  • Story

• I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Music
  • Country
  • Inside

• You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Love
  • Career
  • Goal

• When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• Actually my ideal piece of sculpture is a road.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Road

• We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Deep

• Only boys were so foolish that they actually believed their arguments were their reasons.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Alone

• We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.

  

  Alan Keyes

• Like almost all others began with metaphysical discussions. The theory has advanced but the practical science is still in its infancy and the modern statesman is constantly short of facts on which he can base his speculations.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Science
  • Theory
  • Discussions

• Alas, tears are the poet's heritage!

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Tears

• I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Fun

• Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse