"I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived."
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578 Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
P.J. O'Rourke has 578 quotes on this site.
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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The…
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Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
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Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very…
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More Automobile Quotes
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
— Joe Biden
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Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
— Erma Bombeck
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I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
— Ray Bradbury
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The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more…
— Art Buchwald
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Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big…
— Bill Bryson
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Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these…
— Nolan Bushnell
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We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world,…
— Vince Cable
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Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a…
— Walter Chrysler
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I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
— Albert Einstein
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I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step…
— Booth Tarkington
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