P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Wife

• Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Free
  • Me
  • Always

• I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Travel

• I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Library
  • Then

• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Live
  • Always
  • Greatest

• I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Music
  • American

• I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Great
  • Deep

• Sam Jackson is like the Jeezy of Hollywood: He's for his people.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Like
  • Hollywood

• I see feminism as a massive party. It's cool, the idea that 50% of the population can now start doing things and having fun and experimenting with their hair and makeup.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Cool

• I interned for the Knicks for one year doing community relations, but I absolutely hated it. It was a desk job, and the team was not good at all, and I didn't realize how much that correlated to the office. It was just gray, gloomy days.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Good
  • Job
  • Team

• I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Different
  • Real
  • Meaning

• There's a lot of improv in 'Girls'.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Lot
  • Improv

• People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • People
  • World
  • Seems

• Give peace a chance.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Chance
  • Give

• Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Words
  • Single
  • Language

• Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Popular
  • Right
  • Wage

• The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Different
  • Discipline
  • First

• I don’t care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that’s going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Movie
  • Father

• Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mother
  • Jesus
  • Rude

• It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.

  

  Joe Lando
  • Real
  • Night

• I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the world. Read books, watch movies, see art, see the world, meet new people.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• ‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse