P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'
Quotes to Explore
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.
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My father was an entomologist who believed in continental drift. In the early '50s, that was regarded as nonsense. It was in the mid-'50s that it came back. Someone had thought of it 30 or 40 years earlier named Alfred Wegener, and he never got to see it come back.
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There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. ... Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.
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Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
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Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.
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'Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.'
