P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Experience
  • Issue
  • U.S.

• Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Extraordinary

• I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Hope
  • Never
  • Animals

• You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.

  

  Xenophon
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Fire

• My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Remember
  • Mom
  • Always

• Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Action
  • Little
  • Effect

• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Power
  • You
  • Nice

• In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Life
  • Great
  • Game

• Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Thoughts

• There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Experience
  • You
  • Control

• You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Want
  • Need

• Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Dance

• Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Bible

• If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Idea
  • Revolution
  • Found

• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  

  Ed Markey
  • War
  • Terrorism
  • Engage

• A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Environment

• Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Church

• Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he perpetually struggled to outreach the wind, to outrun space itself. Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the Horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Amazing

• Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

  

  Desmond Tutu

• Washington is not good at getting things done.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Good
  • Done

• There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Old
  • Old People