P. J. O'Rourke Quotes
For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
Quotes to Explore
-
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
-
My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
-
Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
-
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
-
There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
-
But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
-
The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
-
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
-
I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
-
When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
-
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
-
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
-
Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
-
I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
-
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
-
If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
-
I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
-
I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.
-
I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.
-
I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.
-
Culture is this thing that exists apart from our real life but is something we all have tacitly agreed to in America. And what film and television do, particularly in this country, is lay out the characters involved in this invisible agreement and dictate who and what can participate.
-
For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
