P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
-
For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
-
I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
-
I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
-
I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
-
The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.
-
Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.
-
If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
-
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
-
Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
-
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
-
People always ask me, 'Is there a rivalry between the Nickelodeon and Disney stars? Do you guys hate each other?' Like everyone has to be on one team. If you're a Selena Gomez fan, you can't be a Victoria Justice fan. We're both half-Latin, and people put us in the same category.
-
To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
-
I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.
-
I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
-
Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
-
I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.
-
What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
-
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
-
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to. It is content with the low places that people disdain. Thus it is like the Tao. In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
-
The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
