P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

It's hard to come back from the Balkans and not sound like a Pete Seeger song.

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Breakfast
  • Apple
  • Pie

• I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Think

• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Society
  • Just
  • Opinions

• They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Physician

• Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • House
  • Running
  • Run

• Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Money
  • Star
  • Box

• If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Conscious

• My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Favorite
  • Were
  • Anne

• I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Long
  • Book

• There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Changes
  • Alive

• Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Quality

• Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • God
  • Happy
  • Growth

• You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Believe
  • Better
  • Red

• In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

  

  Patrick White
  • School
  • Free
  • English

• The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • People
  • Dream
  • Goal

• How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Remember
  • Suicide
  • Solution

• Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

  

  Jack London
  • Life
  • Song
  • Short

• In the midst of a world of light and love, of song and feast and dance, [Lucifer] could find nothing to think of more interesting than his own prestige.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Song
  • Interesting

• A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.

  

  David Grann
  • Life
  • History

• One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

  

  Andrew Cohen
  • Time
  • Spiritual
  • Teacher

• I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that.

  

  Andrew Pyper
  • Community

• It's hard to come back from the Balkans and not sound like a Pete Seeger song.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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