Office Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

9 Office quotes by P. J. O'Rourke

O'Rourke’s humor lands squarely in the office, delivering sharp observations that make the grind a little brighter. In nine brief lines, his satire highlights the absurdities and small victories of the workplace.

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I was never in the office [of Rolling Stone]. It was very different from Lampoon, where we spent a lot of time…

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Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April…

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Whereas Rolling Stone, I just never had anything to do with them. I'd stop by the office maybe twice a year.

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Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20…

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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're…

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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the…

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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded…

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If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the…

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Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the…

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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such…

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Journalists are notoriously easy to kid. All you have to do is speak to a journalist in a very serious tone of voice, and…

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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've…

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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.

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Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people…

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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.

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