P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Movie
  • Parents
  • You

• Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Real
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• As an organization, Esri is strong, and we're continuing to grow. We're dedicated to this. And we're excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Organization

• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Try
  • Boring

• If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Beat

• Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Time
  • Good
  • Light

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.

  

  Sam Childers
  • Children
  • Night
  • City

• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • Job
  • Help

• I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• There is absolutely no reason in the world of blockchain to build in net settlement. It's like saying you have got a new Ferrari and we are going to put a lawnmower engine in it.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • World
  • New
  • Saying

• The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Step

• The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Song
  • Positive
  • Record

• I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • School
  • High
  • Dance

• Well, first I have to make the team, of course.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • First
  • Well

• I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Freak
  • Geek
  • Freakish

• He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Find
  • Paradise
  • Paths

• Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Important
  • Father
  • Relationship

• I've always - I grew up on the old-style traditional type of golf course, tree lined and all small greens, big undulations. And Oakmont just fit my eye.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Up
  • Small
  • Style

• I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Science
  • Study
  • Language

• People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

  

  David D. Burns
  • People
  • Fear
  • Anxiety

• There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Driving

• There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Art
  • Judging