P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Responsible

• I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Man
  • Star

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Career
  • Want
  • Film

• I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Kids
  • Passion
  • Fire

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Visualize

• I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Government
  • Service
  • Ethics

• I've seen 'Silence of the Lambs,' like, fifty or sixty times. That's my favorite movie of all time.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Like

• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Want
  • Treat

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Scars
  • Shallow

• If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Freedom
  • Care
  • Injustice

• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Environment
  • Opinions

• My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Memory
  • Generation
  • My Father

• Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • May
  • Person

• The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters.

  

  Matthew Ashford
  • People
  • Different

• I deal with the authors I work with, agents, and other departments of the company, talking about both the books that I'm working on and everyone else's. Then there's dealing with foreign publishers: foreigners visit all the time. People want to bounce things off the publisher, and a lot of it is encouragement.

  

  Jonathan Galassi
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People
  • Love
  • Breathe