P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Organization
  • Fans
  • Loved

• The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• I don't believe in miracles.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Believe
  • Miracles

• I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Happy
  • Start

• We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • See
  • Place
  • Take

• I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Play
  • Wants
  • Physical

• I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • Documentary

• I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Been
  • Upset
  • Facebook

• I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Government
  • Happiness
  • Pursue

• I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Treat

• I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control freak, so that's really hard for me.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Up
  • Power
  • Control

• The older I get, the more I'm prepared to do things for the money.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Money
  • Things
  • More

• I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.

  

  Jack Black
  • Like
  • See
  • Just

• The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Great
  • God
  • Faith

• There was a moment when we were casting 'Groundhog Day' when Bill Murray was not at the top of my list. He'd been getting crankier and crankier. By the end of 'Ghostbusters II', he was pretty cranky. I thought, 'Do I want to put up with this for twelve weeks?'

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Day

• I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Boy
  • Image
  • Tattoos

• Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Important
  • You
  • Film

• Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts to a promise that the nation will take certain actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain date.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Promise
  • Paris

• In its fifty-first year of publication, 'The Paris Review' continues to search for new ways to bring together writers and readers.

  

  John D'Agata
  • Together
  • Search
  • Paris

• Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Good
  • Food
  • Light

• Things that happen in Wyoming are things that wouldn't happen in a big city - we've got bears, we've got a lot of shotguns - in Absaroka County, everybody's got a shotgun in the back of their car!

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • City
  • Car
  • Happen

• When I was a little girl growing up in Elmira, I always wanted to be a lawyer.

  

  Jeanine Pirro
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Paris