P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

P. J. O'Rourke

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IgnoranceSomeoneInformationFind

The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.

John Gay

MarriageHopeWifeComfortableUp

I think that if something's really good, and it touches that part of their heart that has been untouched, or maybe it has been touched but they never wanted to admit it, I think that when they get back to that, I think that we are still in a place that people enjoy it the way it's supposed to be enjoyed.

Andrae Crouch

GoodHeartPeopleThinkEnjoyBack

You know, funny can be universal.

Maz Jobrani

FunnyYouKnowUniversal

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

Matthew Arnold

WaitingSparkFallHeaven

Even in a crowded room, likable leaders make people feel like they're having a one-on-one conversation, as if they're the only person in the room that matters. And, for that moment, they are. Likable leaders communicate on a very personal, emotional level.

Travis Bradberry

MomentPeopleFeelConversationRoom

All anyone agreed on was that Kurban Said was the pen name of a writer who had probably come from Baku, an oil city in the Caucasus, and that he was either a nationalist poet who was killed in the Gulags or the dilettante son of an oil millionaire or a Viennese cafe-society writer who died after stabbing himself in the foot.

Tom Reiss

SonCityNamePenSaidOil

When you close a tab or when you finish an article on the web, it's gone unless you go back into your history or search for it or explicitly try to find it. Apps on your phone have this special property: they hang around. In some ways, they're more like a book on a bookshelf than they are like web pages.

Robin Sloan

HistoryBookSearchYouFindPhone

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Mary MacLane

I AmHappyMeBe HappySayingKnow

Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

FatherSomeoneOverComeOhMrs

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

MotherHopeCalmHelpWillYoga

It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.

Conrad Anker

PeopleClimbYouGoResourcesTakes

As long as we keep winning, that's all it's about. But it's evident I do need the ball.

Antonio Brown

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