P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

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• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Attention
  • Desire
  • Bored

• It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Long
  • Family
  • Love

• I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

  

  Bai Ling
  • You
  • Chinese
  • Follow

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Character
  • Like
  • Story

• All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Heart
  • Path
  • Same

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Want
  • Ego

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• It was the late Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar who, by founding the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, made it possible for the scientific aspirations of my early years to continue burning brightly.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Science
  • Early
  • Late

• Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Best
  • Beauty

• The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mistake
  • Voice
  • Easy

• Where the work goes, I go. Wherever adulation occurs, that's where you'll find me.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Me
  • Find

• You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Lead

• In Sonic Youth, at the end of 'Expressway to Yr. Skull,' we'd tap on the backs of our guitars to get this low-level feedback, and if I leaned forward, and the guitar hung off my body, it would resonate differently.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Guitars
  • Sonic Youth
  • Resonate

• The truth is that we have to, as American citizens, stop thinking that this life that we're living, the things that we're dealing with, is some reality TV show. This is real life, real children, real situations.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Pugs are creatures of habit.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Habit

• Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell.

  

  Francis Parkman
  • Men
  • Lost
  • Morning

• Not everything in church is truth ... And not all truth turns up in church.

  

  Faith Sullivan
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Church

• Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Thinking
  • Economics
  • Mine