P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

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• I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Kiss

• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Great
  • Home
  • Doubt

• I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Character
  • Like
  • Just

• If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Percent

• I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Night
  • Same
  • Chicago

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• Life is a dead-end street.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • Street
  • Life Is A

• When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Grow

• I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

  

  H. C. Bailey
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Higher

• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Me
  • Rather

• Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Wealth
  • Environmental
  • Rise

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Long
  • School
  • Mother

• We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Desire
  • Creative
  • Active

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Myself

• It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Time
  • Past
  • Action

• Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

  

  Daniel Pinkwater
  • Heart
  • True
  • Risk

• Uber is a good car service, and that's exactly what they were when we launched.

  

  Logan Green
  • Good
  • Car
  • Service

• Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Car