P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Been
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everything
  • White
  • Certainty

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • Me

• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  

  J Mascis
  • Couple
  • Gold
  • Year

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Nature
  • Spring
  • Will

• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Great
  • Alone
  • Losing

• Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Relationship

• I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Long
  • Summer
  • Winter

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Never
  • Influence

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• God made the integers, man made the rest.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • God
  • Rest
  • Made

• Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

  

  Frank Grillo
  • World

• Now, Marlon and I - for some reason, even today - even today, we can't say two words to each other. We really can't talk to each other. You know, I say to him - Marlon can't talk. I mean, he'd talk to you. But he can't talk.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Today
  • Words
  • Reason

• I love doing things people don't expect.

  

  Lil' Kim
  • People

• I can only speak to the Democrat side, but for the Democrats, everything is aggressively measured, and what that means is if you're going to use Snapchat, you're going to use it for a reason, not just for fun.

  

  Harper Reed
  • Democrat
  • Snapchat

• The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Heart
  • Unknown