P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.
Quotes to Explore
-
We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
-
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
-
My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
-
When you fall in love, you become weak.
-
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
-
What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
-
I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
-
Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
-
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
-
At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
-
The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
-
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
-
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
-
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
-
I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
-
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
-
When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
-
The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
-
In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.
-
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
-
There were three great Virginia poets in the very beginning - George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson. 'What!' you say. 'We do not even know the names of their publishers. They were not poets!' Well, how do you know? Did you ever really read them? What do you know about it? Their very names will breathe poetry forever.
-
I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.
-
I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.
-
I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it.
