P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.P. G. Wodehouse
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Maj Sjowall -
My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
Zig Ziglar -
There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
Sam Yagan -
Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
J. D. Vance -
Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
E. F. Benson
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
Sam Brownback -
When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
Barbara De Angelis -
If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
Fat Joe -
I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
Daniel Espinosa -
I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
Randy Pausch
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin -
Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
Yanis Varoufakis -
I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
Carey Lowell -
This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
Walter Lang -
We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
Malcolm X -
I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
T. J. Miller -
My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
Kamala Harris -
I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decision-making and rows between member states.
Paolo Gentiloni -
Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.
Emil Nolde -
Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
P. G. Wodehouse