P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.

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• I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • You
  • Never
  • Model

• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Suffering
  • Human
  • See

• Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Think
  • Alone
  • Thought

• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Door
  • Step
  • First Step

• You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Year

• Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Men
  • Moon
  • Comparison

• I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Me
  • Year
  • Lord

• What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Dinner

• I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Life
  • School
  • Kid

• We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Change
  • Sacrifice
  • Ocean

• I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • May
  • Day

• I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Want
  • Actor
  • The Right Thing

• We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Money
  • Political
  • Free

• We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Win
  • Give
  • Target

• I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Across
  • Chest
  • Wore

• You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Care

• Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the world will survive." The arc of history is long, and the mess we're currently making is just a blip.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • World
  • Long
  • Father

• I love to entertain an audience.

  

  George Peppard
  • Love
  • Audience
  • Entertain

• I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly ,as I was able to, travelling around the world.

  

  Matthew Reilly
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

  

  Sarah Churchwell
  • Party
  • Memories
  • Ends

• It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Party
  • Speak