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 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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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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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
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I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.
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What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
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I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
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All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.
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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.'
