P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Why
  • Like
  • Always

• We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Self-Love

• I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Life
  • World
  • Puzzle

• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Getting Older

• People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Career
  • Control

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Long
  • Real

• We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Man
  • Worry
  • Race

• I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Favorite

• I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Myself
  • Religion
  • Thought

• China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Party
  • Years
  • Born

• I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Love
  • Fun
  • House

• The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Star
  • Show
  • Ship

• I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Said
  • Go

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Football
  • Moment
  • Racism

• In Latin America, you don't do things for the money because there is no money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • America
  • You

• I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Risk

• I am extremely honoured to be the Defence Secretary, and I would not do the job if I did not think that I could make a useful contribution in the role.

  

  Bob Ainsworth
  • Job

• What's exciting about Sundance is that they're making a name for themselves in this boutique television niche world, and there's energy behind that.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • World
  • Energy

• ...and on MSNBC all over the world. Now, uhh, because it's available all over the world, doesn't mean, by the way, that anybody's watchin' it. Am I right Charles?'

  

  Don Imus
  • World

• We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Trying
  • Stop

• Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Job
  • Hope