P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...

P. G. Wodehouse

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• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Sad
  • Right
  • Very

• You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Good
  • Find
  • Boredom

• I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Like
  • Him
  • Smoke

• I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Game

• I think and that is all that I am.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Think

• My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • Children
  • Game

• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Action
  • Movies
  • Week

• Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Light
  • Responsibility

• I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Kids
  • Video Games

• I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Job
  • Dream
  • Thankful

• If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Crazy

• I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

  

  Edward Heath

• In that year 1865 John Muir offered to buy from his brother … a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • History
  • Free
  • Brother

• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

  

  Annie Dillard

• They said it was the only way to stop her running up debts, but the best way to stop her running up debts was to give her more money.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Up
  • Money
  • Running

• One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures.

  

  David Krumholtz
  • Great
  • Math

• Not everything is going to be handed to you just because you're talented with a big smile. Sometimes you just gotta get out and shoot jumpers for hours and hours and hours. That's something I didn't really get a grasp on until way later, waking up early and treating it like a job if you're serious about it. Get the freak up and, you know, work.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• Gentlemen of the Convention, your present temper may not mark the healthful pulse of our people. When your enthusiasm has passed, when the emotions of this hour have subsided, we shall find below the storm and passion that calm level of public opinion from which the thoughts of a mighty people are to be measured, and by which final action will be determined.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • People
  • May
  • Action

• I have to keep reminding myself that I was hired for a reason and one of those reasons is because of the stories I tell and the films I've made previously.

  

  Taika Waititi

• The enso contains the perfect and imperfect; that is why it is always complete.

  

  Kazuaki Tanahashi
  • Perfect
  • Complete
  • Imperfect

• To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...

  

  P. G. Wodehouse