I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!"

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when."

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Flowers are happy things.

Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'

Boyhood like measles is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

The supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant better left unstirred.

In a cricket career, your life is in some ways controlled for you. You have no control over schedules, you have no control about where you want to play, you don't have control over that as a cricketer.

Certainly I had my preference, and I very much hoped that George W. Bush would be our next president.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

Illiquid asset purchases are all about capital and encouraging private capital to come in.

I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages?

The oil boom is providing Montanans an opportunity for good paying jobs.

Custom is second nature.

If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating little corpses.

I think you figure out how to be funny by necessity. It's not a natural thing, being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we cant even describe arent even aware of.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money and that is sincerity and integrity.

I think each character is different for me, but I am a director's actor. So if I get the right vision and right guidance from my director, I think sky is the limit for me.

There is a large group that's not represented on television - the group that falls somewhere in the middle of straight and gay. That group is looked down on, because people say, 'You can't be in-between. You have to pick one or the other.'

Someone like Cristiano Ronaldo focuses on scoring to progress, so perhaps I need to think more about scoring.

I hate losing.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.