"I like making things. I have a wood……" — P.J. O'Rourke
"I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it."
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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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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go…
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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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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak -…
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More Carpenter Quotes
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax…
— Lewis Carroll
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That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything -…
— David Amram
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
— Jonathan Swift
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Fourthly, the way of the artisan. The way of the carpenter is to become proficient in the use of his…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with…
— Anthony de Mello
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Jesus was a pothead- long hair, beard, sandals, carpenter- do the math it all adds up. Living with twelve guys…
— Ralphie May
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Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to…
— Jack Kerouac
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Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and…
— John Jay Chapman
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone…
— Anthony of Padua
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I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're…
— Betty Buckley
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