P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
P. J. O'Rourke
Quotes to Explore
-
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown
-
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
Cardinal Richelieu
-
I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
C. Thomas Howell
-
Time is valuable; people are busy.
Nancy Gibbs
-
When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
Patrick Rothfuss
-
Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
Obie Trice
-
That's what it is all about, coming in and playing a game like it is your last. That's what we did. We fought on the defensive end, we fought trying to get rebounds, and we let the offense take care of itself.
Allen Iverson
-
Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
-
She was lying like a loaf of bread. I said, baby, baby, baby, are you dead?
Mojo Nixon
-
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the cmbined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.
Betty Smith
-
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
P. J. O'Rourke