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Modern Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities…
- There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable...in large part,…
- I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists…
- Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California,…
- The Greenpeace booth at all the rock and roll shows nowadays are akin to the old sorcerers who used to stand in the middle of…
- You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.
- The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.
- Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.
- There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the…
- If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.
- The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.
- Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler,…
- More modern poetry is written than read.
- 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,…
- Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to…
- Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that…
More Modern Quotes
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey
- Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there… — Dave Barry
- I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov