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

• Power may be defined as the production of intended effects.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May
  • Power

• 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

• A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Live
  • King
  • Purple

• I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Runner
  • Weekends

• If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • People
  • Tyrants
  • Estimation

• When the signal reached LIGO from a collision of two stellar black holes that occurred 1.3 billion years ago, the 1,000-scientist-strong LIGO Scientific Collaboration was able to both identify the candidate event within minutes and perform the detailed analysis that convincingly demonstrated that gravitational waves exist.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Black
  • Strong
  • Collaboration

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

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Waves