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

• When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.

  

  Paul Watson
  • People

• There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Never
  • Experiences
  • Fishing

• Well, this man the T.V. interviewer of Jasper Johns, wanted to know why I stopped painting the so-called famous 'Silence of Duchamp'.. ..and he had said it was because of dealers and money and various reasons. Largely moralistic reasons.. ..But you know; it wasn’t like that. It’s like you break a leg; you don't mean to do it.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Money
  • Why
  • Painting

• It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.

  

  Edmund Ruffin
  • Class
  • Demand
  • Supply

• God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • World
  • God
  • Prayer

• 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