P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
Quotes to Explore
-
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
-
There's something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it's dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it's about.
-
All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.
-
He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
-
Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
-
Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
-
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
-
It's nice not to be too boring.
-
I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
-
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
-
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
-
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
-
I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
-
I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
-
You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
-
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
-
I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
-
No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
-
It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
-
If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
-
The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought.
-
I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
-
Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.
-
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
