P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

P. G. Wodehouse

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 15, 1881 - February 14, 1975

Topics

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In 2002 and 2003, the Bush administration decided against bombing Zarqawi's camp in northern Iraq because it might derail plans to depose Saddam Hussein. By focusing on Zarqawi in his speech at the United Nations, Secretary of State Colin Powell inadvertently spread his fame throughout the Arab world.

Joby Warrick

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I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.

Joe Biden

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The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

Joel Osteen

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The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

Stanley Crouch

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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Sophocles

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By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

Shirley Temple

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I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

Tony Goldwyn

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The laws given on Mount Sinai for the government of man and woman were equal; the precepts of Jesus make no distinction.

Lucretia Mott

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Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'

Jean Craighead George

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I'm poor white trash from the state of Washington.

Chuck Close

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Every choice I've ever made has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.

Peter Brook

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True terrorism, you know, weaponized fear. In defense of ourselves, we're fighting - actively fighting something else. But if you're going to fight terrorism, to me, you fight the root causes of terrorism.

Lupe Fiasco

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