P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Been
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • American
  • Die

• My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'

  

  Cam
  • Good
  • Job
  • Parents

• Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Romantic
  • Hard
  • Comedies

• In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Worry

• A lot of people don't get second chances.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • People
  • Chances
  • Second

• You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Hope

• I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Want
  • Sure
  • Restaurant

• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Me

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Party
  • Always
  • Leave

• Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Effort

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • House
  • Hand
  • Like

• I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Life
  • Great
  • Joy

• The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • House

• That experience of being at Mt. St. Helen's was really formative. I don't even know if I'd be a photographer. It was an essential moment for me.

  

  David Maisel
  • Experience

• There's music to dance to and make love to, music to cry to. I'm starting from scratch, coming fresh. But my sound still embodies the same soulful, intricate harmonies.

  

  El DeBarge DeBarge
  • Music
  • Dance

• Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

  

  James Thurber
  • Night
  • Small

• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Failure