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

• 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

• 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

• Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

  

  Chris Klein
  • Remember
  • Dream

• What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Reality
  • Search
  • Policy

• There is something in the human psyche that there is a connection between horses and humans, a real special kind of a thing, and I guess it’s always been there. I hope it will always be there, I hope we don’t evolve past that.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Humans
  • Horses
  • Human Psyche

• If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.

  

  Armond White
  • Pressure
  • Marketing
  • Critics

• The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

  

  Clarence Darrow

• I never went to school for photography and started when I was pretty young. I was somewhere around 12 or 13. I started photographing as a hobby and carried that hobby through high school and university.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• 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