P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Team
  • Breakfast
  • Habits

• The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Years
  • End
  • Fast

• There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Day
  • Two
  • Debate

• Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Look
  • Early
  • Google

• I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Happy

• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Attention

• People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Media

• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Want
  • Need

• I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • Running

• And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Different
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• I don't let anything kill my spirit.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Spirit
  • Anything

• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.

  

  Patrick Murphy
  • People
  • Political
  • Education

• Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Funny
  • Friend
  • Humor

• When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

  

  Allen Klein
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Experience

• Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Real
  • Know
  • Courage

• An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.

  

  J. Golden Kimball

• The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • April
  • October

• Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

  

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