P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

P. J. O'Rourke

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• We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Style
  • Forget
  • Heritage

• Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Inspiration
  • Obligation

• With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Hard

• Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Tax

• You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Talk
  • Snake

• Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Best
  • Many
  • Venture

• People are getting careers from YouTube and uploading videos. And they're totally different - you can't necessarily be funny on a video, and then all of a sudden you're live in a theater. You don't have the tools yet. It's a lot more involved to go from being funny on a little iPhone screen to being live in front of people and being funny.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Sweet
  • Alien

• I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.

  

  Feist
  • Long
  • Year
  • Curious

• The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Good
  • Happiness
  • Beauty

• That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Poetry
  • Say
  • Epic

• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Real
  • Faith
  • Personal

• Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Death
  • Night

• I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.

  

  Zendaya
  • Time
  • She
  • Happy

• It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Famous

• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Public
  • Intellectual

• I play golf - even though I'm awful at it.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Golf

• I think you can fairly say I spawned or laid an egg that has turned into a lifestyle industry.

  

  Martha Stewart

• For just experience tells; in every soil,That those that think must govern those that toil.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Experience

• For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Done
  • Me
  • Cool

• Zerts' are what I call desserts. 'Trée-trées' are entrées. I call sandwiches 'sammies,' 'sandoozles,' or 'Adam Sandlers.' Air conditioners are 'cool blasterz' with a 'z' - I don't know where that came from. I call cakes 'big ol' cookies.' I call noodles 'long-ass rice.' Fried chicken is 'fry-fry chicky-chick.' Chicken parm is 'chicky-chicky-parm-parm.' Chicken cacciatore? 'Chicky-cacc.' I call eggs 'pre-birds,' or 'future birds.' Root beer is 'super water.' Tortillas are 'bean blankets.' And I call forks 'food rakes.'

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Long
  • Future
  • Food

• Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Cool
  • Being
  • Status