P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• I was an English major in college!

  

  Maggie Siff
  • College
  • English
  • Major

• We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Going
  • Go

• Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Science
  • Best
  • Force

• The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Life
  • Character
  • Brother

• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Stop
  • Television

• Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • End
  • Building

• Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Forever

• It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • History
  • Learn

• Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Peace
  • Civilization

• I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Looking
  • Make
  • Go

• Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Art
  • Fashion

• When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • American
  • Think
  • Chicago

• I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Feel
  • Audience
  • Sensitive

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Fun
  • Now
  • Nobody

• Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • History
  • Past
  • Study

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed; Lay that on your heart, My young angry dear; This truth, this hard and precious stone, Lay it on your hot cheek, Let it hide your tear. Hold it like a crystal When you are alone And gaze in the depths of the icy stone. Long, look long and you will be blessed: No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Heart
  • Blessed
  • Angry

• You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Men
  • Women
  • Light

• I think the '70s was a much healthier period for music because people were more innovative and creative.

  

  Maurice White Earth, Wind & Fire
  • People
  • Music
  • Period

• So it's a mistake for someone to think that they bailed New York out. They did assist us, for which we are grateful, but it's a mistake to say we bailed New York out by giving them a grant of money to help those poor people who throw it away on welfare.

  

  David Dinkins
  • People
  • Money
  • Help

• Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

  

  Jenna Fischer
  • Famous
  • Celebrity

• We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Light
  • Kitchen
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