P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
Quotes to Explore
-
It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.
-
The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
-
My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters but are actual, real people. My grandmother made sure I had manners and all that stuff.
-
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
-
Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
-
In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
-
I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
-
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
-
I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
-
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
-
On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
-
I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
-
I have a couture body.
-
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
-
I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
-
I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed.
-
My father was a gambler. My father could not resist a casino or a card game. He loved gambling.
-
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
-
The attraction in this city is money, from gambling. What you are if you work here is a shill.
-
If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.
-
What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
-
My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles, respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.
-
The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances-of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped.
-
A sort of gulpy, gurgly, plobby, squishy, wofflesome sound, like a thousand eager men drinking soup in a foreign restaurant.
