P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • World
  • Dream
  • Crazy

• When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Up
  • Mom

• Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Matter
  • Say
  • Wrong

• There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Evil
  • Moment
  • Injustice

• My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Mother
  • Always
  • Couple

• You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • People
  • Up
  • Girl

• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• I make mistakes on a very grand scale.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mistakes
  • Very
  • Scale

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• Sometimes we do things that are really awful.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Awful

• You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Done
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • You
  • Without

• People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Women
  • You

• I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Progress
  • Try

• We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • God
  • Believe
  • Opportunities

• The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Poet
  • Politician
  • Cultures

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• I’m really enjoying my rugby at Glasgow, the club is in a great place, we’ve been pretty successful over the last two or three years, and we’ve got a great squad and a great coaching team.

  

  George Horne
  • Team
  • Place
  • Club

• You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.

  

  Amanda Pays
  • Way
  • Materials
  • Wood

• Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Dark
  • Wood
  • Journey Of Life

• I really love beautiful, well – made clothes. I don't shop a lot, so I tend to have pieces for a long time. I like mixing vintage with newer designers.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Designer

• I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Wood
  • Shop
  • Carpenter