P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?

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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
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Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.
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I want more job. I want to die entertaining.
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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I don't wash my hair very often. Once a week if I can. Because the more you wash it, you end up stripping out the natural oils. What I like to do is just rinse out the products that I've used during the week and then put leave-in conditioner in and let it dry naturally.
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Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised.....techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?