P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said.

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• People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • First
  • Meeting

• L.A. makes you feel ugly.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Feel
  • Ugly

• Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Book
  • Always
  • Write

• Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Long
  • Women
  • History

• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • How

• Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Me
  • Voice
  • Making

• As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political cause so that we can get out there, you know, and play flag football or Frisbee, or walk the dog or something - you know, which is, you know, what the National Mall should be for, in my personal opinion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Wish
  • Football

• Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad

• Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Human
  • Urban
  • Wildlife

• I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Party
  • Everyone
  • Table

• If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Control
  • Rules
  • Danger

• I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

  

  Nas
  • Always
  • Matter
  • Rap

• I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.

  

  Felix Hernandez
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trust

• Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

  

  Hank Haney
  • Easy
  • Tiger
  • Woods

• The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.

  

  Han Fei
  • Men
  • Law
  • Intelligent

• People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Happy
  • Me

• When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Music
  • She

• When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Music
  • Band
  • Making

• One thing that's important to understand is that it's believed that the pathology of CTE doesn't have to do with concussion so much as it has to do with the accumulation of sub-concussive hits. So every hit matters. If you're subject to 800 or 1,200 of these every year, it accumulates. It's like erosion.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Important

• Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Party

• I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Thinking
  • Simple
  • Wonder

• Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said.

  

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