P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
Quotes to Explore
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This is a group playing together and that's the only way, I feel, this play can be successful and moving. I am so lucky to have the people that are in it. When I came here I didn't know who was going to be in the play.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
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We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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You know those people in life who are a bit eccentric and larger than life or a bit odd? That their realm of possibility around them is larger than somebody who's called normal? What's normal for an oddball? They could start screaming in public. That's fun to play.
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If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
