P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts- the country has shortages of practically everything.

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• What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Plant
  • Curiosity

• Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Important
  • Know

• When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • First
  • Selling

• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Should
  • Matter
  • Say

• Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Done
  • Day

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Wealth

• I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • School
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

  

  Eddie Mathews
  • People
  • Know
  • Day

• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Race

• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Movies

• I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Hope
  • Romantic
  • Last

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.

  

  Oliver North
  • Character
  • Guy
  • Political

• During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Want
  • Religious
  • Mad

• I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Money
  • Free
  • Value

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Giving

• I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Hope
  • Society
  • Day

• When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Time
  • Children
  • Business

• The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind's supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Work
  • Moments
  • Genius

• The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Women
  • Country
  • Struggle

• There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts- the country has shortages of practically everything.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country