P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.

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• The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Women
  • She
  • Success

• I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Issues
  • Policy
  • Intelligently

• I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Child

• My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Black
  • New York
  • Dress

• The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Change

• Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Red
  • Crime
  • Stock

• As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.

  

  Gary Player
  • Know
  • Golf
  • Puzzle

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Serious

• My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Age

• We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Known
  • Few
  • Munich

• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Role

• Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Wisdom

• A good leader must be fair.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Done

• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Writing
  • She
  • Book

• If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Woman
  • Situation
  • Everyone

• There's room for role models who make mistakes.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mistakes
  • Room
  • Role Models

• I like Donald. I guess I shouldn't call him that. I like President Trump. He's affable. He's funny.

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • Funny
  • Trump

• Being a champion is not just being a frontrunner and being ahead, but it's facing adversity.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Champion
  • Adversity

• Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing – everything from high fashion to street fashion.

  

  Austin Scarlett
  • Fashion
  • Inspired
  • Street

• What kind of woman irons her husband's sheets? Even the clothes I wear, I just throw 'em in the dryer with some golf balls.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Husband
  • Golf

• Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fashion
  • Others
  • Arguing