All P.J. O'Rourke Quotes
- Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all… All
- I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion. Favor
- Everybody is xenophobic to an extent. Everybody
- Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. Assisted
- Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer. Computer
- The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics… Become Wildly
- The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. Atomic
- Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering. Art
- The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic. Almost Entirely
- More modern poetry is written than read. Modern
- I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make… Bears
- Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative. Canceling
- The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it. Adept
- The idea of a stag hunt evokes chivalry - knights in jerkins and hose, ladies on sidesaddles with wimples and billowing dresses, a white stag… Actual
- The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics. Aspects
- In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old. Ask
- Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy. Debate
- Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising. Amid
- Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could. All
- Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America. America
- When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money. Forbidden
- There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the… Big
- Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters. Bill
- America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays. America
- In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank,… Adams