P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.
P. J. O'Rourke
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
Yuliya Snigir
We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
Dan Brown
My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
J. Cole
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
Zoe Saldana
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
Edmund Waller
It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
J. R. Martinez
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
Walter Jon Williams
I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
Hannibal Buress
I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
Wayne Knight
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Edna Ferber
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King
I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
Mahesh Babu
My family background has always been very supportive. They're going to be there for me no matter what.
Mark Sanchez
Harvey, Galileo, Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.
Kenneth Rexroth
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
David Bowie
In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.
P. J. O'Rourke
