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
  • Pay

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• If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.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

• I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Work
  • Boy
  • Talent

• 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 like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Like

• 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

• Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Life
  • Live

• Being back on stage in New York, off-Broadway - I mean, that's an actor's dream.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Dream

• Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• My ideal weight is 205, actually.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

• My job is to tell the truth about what's happening as best I can.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Job
  • Truth

• True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Truth
  • True

• 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