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Used Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
- When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.
- 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.
- 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…
- I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
- College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
- A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little…
- 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…
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- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used… — Margaret Atwood
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the… — Paul Auster
- I could sell used battery acid and make it fly. — Dan Aykroyd
- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved… — Charles Babbage
- Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of… — Charles Babbage
- I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my… — Lauren Bacall
- I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure. — Sebastian Bach