P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
Quotes to Explore
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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I'm a talker.
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I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
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Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events.
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I was reading Emily Dickinson and Edwin Arlington Robinson, but these weren't the poets that influenced me. I think Gwendolyn Brooks influenced me because she wrote about Chicago, and she wrote about poor people. And she influenced me in my life by giving me a blurb. I would see her in action, and she listened to every single person. She didn't say, "Oh, I'm tired. I gotta go." She was there, and present, with every single person. She's one of the great teachers.
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There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
