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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• Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • World
  • Live
  • Political

• Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Job
  • War

• I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Up
  • Opportunity
  • End

• I am not in the business of suppressing books.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Business
  • Books
  • Suppressing

• Most people who aspire to be president don't have a foreign policy and national security background. The exception was certainly Hillary Clinton.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Security
  • Policy

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Idea

• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Together

• I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Women
  • Want
  • Small

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• 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
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• 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
  • History
  • Science
  • Poetry

• 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
  • Think
  • Easy
  • Tough

• I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Think
  • Early

• 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
  • People
  • Business
  • Past

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

  Florence King
  • Moral
  • Snake
  • Bee

• I get pretty grumpy about TV.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Pretty
  • TV
  • Grumpy

• I never thought life would be this sweet, It got me cheesing from cheek to cheek.

  

  Mac Miller
  • Life
  • Sweet

• Unfortunately, many young believers - and some older ones, too - do not know that there will be times in every person's life when circumstances don't add up - when God doesn't appear to make sense. This aspect of the Christian faith is not well advertised.

  

  James Dobson
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I am a firm believer in eating a full plant-based, whole food diet that can expand your life length and make you an all-around happier person. It is tricky dining out, but I just stick to what I know - veggies, fruit and salad - then when I get home I'll have something else.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Life
  • Home
  • Food

• There are no tigers for us, just a city, waiting, and it loves us, in whatever ways a city can love.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • City
  • Waiting
  • Loves

• 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
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Design