P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

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• Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Me
  • Cooking
  • Patience

• You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Time
  • You
  • Routine

• When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Loved
  • Advertising

• Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Time
  • Good
  • Doctor

• I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Waiting
  • Would

• Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Party
  • Democracy
  • Social

• Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • World
  • Curiosity
  • Without

• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Long
  • War

• I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Been
  • Out

• Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Man
  • Black

• Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Life
  • Hell

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Men
  • Home
  • Remember

• I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Know
  • I Can

• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Different
  • Changes
  • Looking

• Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Sister

• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

  

  Hannah More
  • Sin
  • Drunk
  • Punishment

• The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Women

• Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.

  

  Craig Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, 'I have found it! Eureka!'

  

  Plutarch
  • Up
  • Water
  • King

• I got to Broadway a year after I came to New York. I starred in 'Butterflies Are Free' and got a Tony for it. Right out of the gate. Maybe that's why I wasn't very gracious about it. I wasn't driven. And right after 'Butterflies Are Free', I got married and then started a family. I always wanted that.

  

  Blythe Danner
  • Family
  • Why
  • Free

• New York is a small place when it comes to the part of it that wakes up just as the rest is going to bed.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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