P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Then basically what was happening was that it was the middle '80s, and Rolling Stone realized that a lot of their readers had voted for [Ronald] Reagan, and they were going, "Gosh! We need a Republican! Does anybody know a Republican? Wait a minute! I think P.J.'s a Republican!"
Quotes to Explore
-
Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
-
It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
-
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
-
I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
-
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
-
The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
-
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
-
True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
-
No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
-
Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
-
The bad boy: always more fun.
-
Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
-
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
-
I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.
-
Math is one of my favorite subjects.
-
Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
-
I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
-
The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.
-
The people that know the industry better than anybody are the people who work in the industry.
-
I think what all actors share is that, somewhere down in your solar plexus, there's this fear that you're not going to be able to come up with the goods, that this is the one movie where you're going to look like a fool, and they should have cast someone else. And you feel ugly, and you've got three chins, and you've gained too much weight, and you're losing your hair, and there are so many better actors who could do this. But if you've got chops, what you realize is that everybody feels that way, so just show up and do the job.
-
I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
-
I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.
-
Then basically what was happening was that it was the middle '80s, and Rolling Stone realized that a lot of their readers had voted for [Ronald] Reagan, and they were going, "Gosh! We need a Republican! Does anybody know a Republican? Wait a minute! I think P.J.'s a Republican!"
