P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.

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• 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

• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Men
  • Doing
  • Ambition

• Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Kids
  • Day
  • Breakfast

• I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Story
  • Strange

• I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Money
  • Government
  • Project

• I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Bisexual

• Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Choice
  • Content
  • Blessings

• Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Moment

• A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Chinese
  • Stronger
  • Lead

• It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • America
  • New York

• We recognize that the arts are an essential part of San Francisco's cultural vitality.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Recognize
  • Arts
  • Cultural

• My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Love
  • Best

• 'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Stop
  • Decision
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• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Moving
  • Look
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• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Tongue

• I really am a woman at peace.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Peace
  • Woman
  • Really

• About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • School
  • Game

• Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Care
  • Born
  • Brought Up

• At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Situation

• Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • World
  • Great
  • Real

• God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• Nancy Pelosi says the angry opposition to health care reform is like the angry opposition to gay rights that led to Harvey Milk being shot.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Health
  • Care
  • Gay