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

• I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Up
  • Men
  • Help

• It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Up
  • Job
  • Giving

• When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Song
  • Light
  • Church

• One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

  

  Pam Houston
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Behavior

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

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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