P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.

  

  T.I.
  • Time
  • Me
  • Myself

• I believe the Obama administration, from the president on down, has taken a very weak position regarding granting Palestine statehood at the United Nations.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Believe
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• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  

  Samuel Butler
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  • Old
  • Ancient

• My first calendar was a combination of photos taken from different shoots including golf and casual.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
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  • Golf

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
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  • Work
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• And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Brain
  • Direction
  • Ordinary

• I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

  

  Rachel Roberts
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• It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.

  

  Parker Posey
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• If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've always kept my 'A-game' on point. I just make a point to make sure the woman that I'm with is taken care of. You got to keep it new, so I go out of my way to make them feel special.

  

  Lance Gross
  • People
  • Game
  • Girl

• Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Free

• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth - they, and they only.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Life
  • Men
  • Heart

• Tell your lizard (brain) to shut up.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Brain
  • Shut Up
  • Lizards

• The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big no matter what it is, so if I do something positive, it has to be equally big.

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Small

• It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.

  

  Denis Napthine
  • People

• I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
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  • Writing

• I suppose he must have taken about a nine or something in hats. Shows what a rotten thing it is to let your brain develop too much.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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