P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

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• A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

  

  Jack London
  • Dog
  • Charity
  • Hungry

• During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Listen

• I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • She
  • Mom
  • Best

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Home
  • Want
  • Man

• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Single
  • Weekend
  • Skills

• In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Love
  • Force
  • Create

• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Role

• I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Up
  • World
  • Truth

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Down
  • Parade
  • Runway

• We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Rap
  • Brains

• Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Accounting

• Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.

  

  K. A. Paul
  • People
  • Tomorrow
  • Accept

• The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me.

  

  Mattie Stepanek
  • People
  • Life

• We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.

  

  Manuel Moroun
  • Help
  • City
  • Taxes

• When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.

  

  Chelsea Peretti
  • Time
  • Mind
  • She

• If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Writing
  • She
  • History

• I know that if I'm going to take myself to where I want to go as an athlete and a person, I have to look at all my training options.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Training
  • Athlete

• Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Book