Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Thursday, February 4, 2010

YOUR DAILY WODEHOUSE


"A melancholy man, [he] had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle."

- PG Wodehouse, (from The Man Who Disliked Cats in The Man Upstairs)

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

QUESTIONS

"There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself 'Do trousers matter?'"

"The mood will pass, sir"


THE PROCESS

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Success

Like all young artists nowadays, he had always held before him as the goal of his ambition the invention of some new comic animal for the motion pictures. What he burned to do, as Velasquez would have burned to do if he had lived today, was to think of another Mickey Mouse and then give up work and watch the money roll in.
(from 'Buried Treasure' in Lord Emsworth and Others)

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