P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

P. G. Wodehouse

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• This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Reality
  • Immigration
  • Trail

• Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Long
  • Political
  • Change

• Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Important
  • Myself

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking

• Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Goddess

• In the larger scale of things, his opinions didn’t count anyhow. The politicians made the decisions, and the voters paid no attention.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Attention

• A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Friend

• I do not ask my cross to understandMy way to see:Better in darkness just to feel Thy handAnd follow Thee.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter

• Youth, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Period
  • Honor

• Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • God

• Port-wine, he says, when rich and sound, Warms his old bones like nectar: And as the inns, where it is found, Are his especial hunting-ground, We call him the INN-SPECTRE.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Wine
  • Hunting

• I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Up
  • American

• I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People
  • Night
  • Interesting

• A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.

  

  Neymar
  • Forever

• Healing is a moral thing to do.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • Moral
  • Healing

• Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

  

  Franz Schubert
  • Live
  • House
  • Garden

• If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Good
  • Real

• Who God is and what it is to be divine is something we have to learn where God has revealed Himself and His nature, the essence of the divine.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Nature

• And for those of us who have, you know, looked in sort of the established order of the political fray over the course of the past several years, it looks like chaos. But to the people I think it looks like democracy. And I think that that's something that really is moving us to a new reality, where the parties are going to have to retrofit themselves and adapt to this new realignment.

  

  Ben Domenech
  • Reality
  • Established
  • Fray

• I like to play in the deep register. I was never a high-note specialist. My range goes from the bottom of the horn up to around C or D. High D is about it for me ... about two-and-a-half octaves, I think. But in these two-and-a-half octaves, I can say everything I have to say.

  

  Chet Baker
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • High

• It is not good for ordinary people to say, 'I am He.' The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves? The upshot of the whole thing is that, no matter what path you follow, yoga is impossible unless the mind becomes quiet. The mind of a yogi is under his control; he is not under the control of his mind.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• Slowly the ivy on the stones Becomes the stones. Women become The cities, children become the fields And men in waves become the sea.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• I shuddered from stem to stern, as stout barks do when buffeted by the waves.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Waves