P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

P. J. O'Rourke

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Talking

• I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Today

• Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Attention
  • Some

• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.

  

  Young Thug
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Close

• Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attention

• It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talking
  • Three
  • Ring

• Before 'The Vampire Diaries,' I was making beats, which is how I got will.i.am's attention, and I went on tour with him.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Attention
  • Him
  • Vampire

• Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Character
  • Book
  • Me

• In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care shall be taken to insure the highest condition of efficiency; and in furtherance of that object, the Military and Naval Schools, sustained by the liberality of Congress, shall receive the special attention of the Executive.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Attention
  • Taken
  • Care

• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Think
  • Attention

• You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • People
  • Important
  • Ideas

• Maybe you want to give me kisses sweet,But only for one night with no repeat.Maybe you'd go away and never call,And a taste of honey is worse than none at all (oh little girl)Oh little girl, in that case I don't want no part. (I do believe that)That would only break my heart.Oh, but if you feel like loving me,If you got the notion,I second that emotion.

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Night

• Hacking is exploiting security controls either in a technical, physical or a human-based element.

  

  Kevin Mitnick

• USDA says pink slime, which is made of cow connective tissue and other scraps and then treated with ammonia to kill the salmonella, e Coli, potentially, the U.S. Government says it's totally safe.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Pink

• There was no point in feeling hurt simply because a man she refused to want didn't want her back.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Want
  • Man
  • Feeling

• None of you knows what creativity means. To paint a picture, to write a poem? No! To recast one’s whole age, to impose upon it the stamp of one’s will, to fill it with beauty, to overwhelm it, to overpower it with one’s spirit.

  

  Christian Morgenstern
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Creativity

• One thing talk can't accomplish is communication. This is because everybody's talking too much to pay attention to what anyone is saying

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Attention
  • Communication
  • Talking