P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Job
  • Help
  • Guy

• I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Great
  • Car
  • Drive

• I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Wish
  • Cat
  • Mysterious

• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Enemy

• Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Political
  • Become

• I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • American
  • Think
  • Myself

• Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Medicine
  • Diseases
  • Doubts

• Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Nature
  • Here
  • Delight

• We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Rules
  • August

• My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Great
  • Education

• I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

  

  Zach Cregger
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Day
  • End

• Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Great
  • Music
  • Different

• There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Effort
  • Presence
  • Lebanon

• Poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labor and exploitation of children … It’s a triangular relationship between child labor, poverty and illiteracy, and I have been trying to fight all of these things together.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Together

• If you’re really going to die on me, you could at least rub my neck before you go.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Die

• 'It must be a real one-horse town.'Auger shook her head as she lit a cigarette. 'It has wild ambitions of becoming a one-horse town.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Real
  • She
  • Horse

• I never want people to be repulsed with my pictures; I always want to attract people.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • People

• If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.

  

  Bob Parsons
  • Moments

• Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Science

• A man, to use an old-fashioned phrase, of some twenty-eight summers, he gave the impression at the moment of having experienced at least that number of very hard winters.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse