P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

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• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Shame
  • Come And Go

• In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • History
  • Politics

• A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Single

• I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • God
  • Real
  • Movie

• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Challenges
  • Leader
  • Manager

• There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Different
  • Writing
  • May

• I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Mostly

• Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Clothes
  • Throw

• I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Attention
  • Brain
  • Poor

• I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Work
  • Will

• And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Women
  • Job

• We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Women
  • Children
  • Family

• A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Cool

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Country
  • Better
  • Healthy

• A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I had worked on dogs for a couple of years developing a renal transplant operation. We had dogs running around with kidneys we had transplanted back into themselves.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Running
  • Couple

• Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Good
  • Important
  • May

• Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • House
  • Team
  • Best

• For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Nature

• Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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