P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.P. G. Wodehouse
Quotes to Explore
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
Nancy Roman -
My health is fine.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.
Ted Yoho -
Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
Saint Ignatius -
I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
B. B. King
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
Karen Armstrong -
In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
Jack Keane -
The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
Jack Coleman -
I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
Randy Newman -
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
Edmund Clarence Stedman -
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
Langston Hughes
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Kevin Systrom of Instagram used to work for us as a consultant in the early days of Mint. I knew him a long time ago. Maybe I could have gotten in there. But with photo sharing, I don't know if there's an obvious business model. I don't think there's a competitive, sustainable advantage.
Aaron Patzer -
Only the dead are free of the influence of others.
Karl Schroeder -
'If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that's the answer.' (talking about the United States State Department) 2
Pat Robertson -
In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations.
Isaac Asimov -
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
Ben Jonson -
We have been exceedingly busy ever since you went away. In the first place we have had to rejoice two or three times everyday at your having such very delightful weather for the whole of your journey...
Jane Austen
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
Oscar Wilde -
Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.
Anthony Marais -
There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.
Elizabeth Gilbert -
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Thomas A. Edison -
The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.
Charles C. Mann -
If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.
P. G. Wodehouse