P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

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• I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Seeing
  • Seriously
  • Bedroom

• People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• I'm cranky.

  

  Larry David
  • Cranky

• Time is generally the best doctor.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Best
  • Medical

• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Memorial
  • Parties
  • Cocktail

• I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Girl
  • Person
  • Wooing

• I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Better

• I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Mind
  • Loved
  • Kid

• I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Secret

• Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

  

  Washed Out
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Heart
  • Die

• I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • See
  • Lucky
  • Museum

• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Day

• I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Strength
  • Gain
  • Surroundings

• What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Music
  • She
  • Happy

• I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Up
  • Started
  • Had

• I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Experience

• If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Life
  • Me
  • Army

• In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Thought
  • Laugh

• There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Love
  • Soul
  • For Her

• I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Fun
  • Happy
  • Health

• As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • Mind

• Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.

  

  Stanley Robert Vinton
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.

  

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