P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
-
I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
-
You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
-
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
-
My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
-
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
-
Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
-
My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
-
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
-
I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
-
The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
-
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
-
The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
-
I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
-
And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
-
I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
-
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
-
The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
-
The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.
-
The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.
-
I used to be naive. I didn't realize the value of being a whole performer... People start to care about you when they know more about you and see different aspects of your personality.
-
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
-
People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.
-
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
