P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• Nothing is unfilmable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nothing

• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Decision

• I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Men
  • Women
  • Movie

• I was a complete outsider in high school.

  

  Karen O
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  

  Idi Amin
  • World
  • Myself
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• Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Church

• Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • House
  • Tree

• My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • World
  • Me
  • Daughter

• The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Free
  • Day
  • Run

• I totally consider Fishbowl my full time job - I have to say I freaking love doing this blog. I just enjoy the medium so much; I love the fact that it requires me to read amazing stuff by hilarious and talented people and forces me to know what's going on in the world.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I love 'Glee.'

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Glee

• The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Night
  • Know
  • Mystery

• So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Think
  • Me
  • Piano

• I want to be treated like a musician.

  

  Halsey
  • Want
  • Like
  • Musician

• There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Happiness

• As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Book

• It's a big statement if you use the word 'America' in the title of your poem.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • America

• Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Soul
  • Sea
  • Sky

• We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • Family
  • School
  • English

• You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Serious
  • Weather
  • Begin

• Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Serious
  • Jokes
  • Existentialist

• I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Serious