#me

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#cheap #like #memories #restaurant #soup

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#anybody #come #course #critic #dark

Golf, like measles, should be caught young. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#golf #like #measles #should #young

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#enriches #everybody #literature #lives #music

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#alcohol #discovered #food #george #medical

After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard. ↗

— James Wolcott

#backyard #beauty #cares #chase #dance

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bowl #central #comedy #could #creators

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers. ↗

— James Wolcott

#being #bill #catholic #children #collectors

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. ↗

— James Wolcott

#become #been #design #iconography #like

Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through. ↗

— James Wolcott

#broadway #deplore #imaginative #influx #machine