P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

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• I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Space
  • Here
  • Sold

• The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Done
  • Something
  • Respond

• I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feel

• Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Home
  • House
  • Night

• It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Live
  • Best
  • Honor

• When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Same
  • Morals

• That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!

  

  Randy West
  • Energy
  • Joy
  • Never

• Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Help
  • Today
  • Free

• I'm beyond the normal person. I'm not your everyday Joe.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Person
  • Everyday
  • Normal

• We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Best
  • Choice
  • Be Prepared

• Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Boxing

• I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Think

• I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

  

  Kanye West
  • Book
  • Autograph
  • Non-Reader

• I still don't get golf.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Golf
  • Get
  • Still

• It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Doing

• Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Faith
  • Status Quo

• All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Death
  • Sentences

• Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Strong
  • Giving

• I wanted to read someone who rose above the romanticism of most women writers. I wanted robust prose; I wanted muscle and sinew, even if it was a love story.

  

  Anita Nair
  • Wanted
  • Prose
  • Romanticism

• I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

  

  Travis Barker Blink-182
  • Trying
  • Able
  • Walks

• I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Happy

• Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Mirror