P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.

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• It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • World
  • Emotions
  • Mysterious

• Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • College
  • Myself
  • Never

• You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Business
  • Friend
  • Learn

• Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Country
  • Powerful
  • Same

• In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Dead
  • Politician

• I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • Like
  • Pretentious

• I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Good
  • Try
  • Moves

• Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Time
  • Real
  • Internet

• I never forbid myself anything.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Anything

• Guys like Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Rome, Bill Maher, those are the guys I love and respect as broadcasters.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Love
  • Respect
  • Like

• When I first ran for Congress in 1992, I campaigned on a pledge to make affordable, quality healthcare a right, not a privilege, for all Americans.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Quality
  • First
  • Health care

• The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • World
  • Way
  • Like

• Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Know
  • Alone

• Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Truths
  • Wearing
  • Cologne

• Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Live
  • Philosophy

• In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • History
  • Study

• People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Hate
  • Sympathy

• Drama asks some uncomfortable questions at times... It goes to pretty dark places.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Pretty
  • Dark
  • Drama

• Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • Important
  • Business

• I don't know if this is the flat-out strangest, but I'll never forget handling a human brain. It had been sliced into sections for autopsy, each about an inch thick, and felt like pork tenderloin. I swear to god, my first thought was that if you were to dust it with chipotle and cinnamon and saute it in butter, it would probably be delicious.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • God
  • Brain

• I knew what I wanted to be, but I didn't know exactly how to get there. I thought you move to Nashville, you sing downtown, and someone discovers you, and you become a country music star. I had no idea.

  

  Tyler Farr
  • Music
  • Country
  • Star

• Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Fishing
  • Purple