Wasps Quotes - Page 3

• That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.

  Dave Barry

  Black, Ships, Peter

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• I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

  Jo Brand

  Brother, Fall, Two

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• George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).

  Peter York

  Father, Yale, Class

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• I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.

  Carrie Fisher

  Brother, Growing Up, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Ideas, Skins, Mania

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• Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I remember being made very uneasy the first time I heard Rumble , and yet very excited by the guitar sound. And his voice! He sounds like a cross between Jagger and Van Morrison, even sometimes like Robbie Robertson. We met him in New York in 1970 while recording Who's Next.... this later inspired the b-side Wasp Man, a tune we dedicated to Link Wray.

  Pete Townshend

  New York, Mean, Men

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• As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  California, Cold, Term

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.

  Armie Hammer

  Believe, Roles, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless - examination of my personal effects. We all have to make sacrifices for airline safety.

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Sacrifice, Safety

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• I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.

  James Ellroy

  School, Kids, Attention

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• The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

  John Arlott

  Technique, Nests, Umbrella

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