P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.

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• The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Art
  • Creation
  • Older

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Look

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Pain
  • Emotional
  • More

• Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.

  

  Lara St. John
  • First
  • Curiosity
  • Patient

• One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Find

• See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • God
  • Job

• I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Why
  • Know
  • Well

• When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Money
  • Change

• I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Hate

• Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Power

• Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Reading
  • Poetry
  • Young

• Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Human
  • Natural
  • Potential

• If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Me

• Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • American
  • Doubt
  • Conversation

• If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Film
  • Try

• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Creative

• When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fun

• Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Money
  • Kid
  • Record

• I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

  

  Alison Goodman
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Accept

• By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Today
  • Running