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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.

P. J. O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1947

Topics

Television Programming Years Brains

I think it tends to be overused and can be a little bit gimmicky. A lot of people are using 3-D now because they feel have they have to... that will come and go and the pictures that deserve to be in 3-D will continue to be. When it's done bad, it can make you carsick.

Joe Johnston

People Think Feel You Bad Pictures

I call it 'the Etch A Sketch life.' Every few years, you should shake that thing up.

John Tesh

Life You Sketch Years Up Call

In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.

Tom Hooper

Time Moment Patriotism Fight King

I have to constantly be doing something; otherwise, I don't feel like I'm reaching the level that I should be.

Mija

Feel Doing Level Something Like

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

Julia Cameron

Parenting Loss Go Answers Discover

That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past.

Jon Hurwitz

Past School Fun People High School

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

Don Rickles

Life Business My Life Insurance Kid

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Devon Werkheiser

Doing Acting Way Never Out Chores

I'm not ashamed of anything I've ever done in the name of fairness and justice for my people.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Justice People Name Fairness Done

I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.

Sydney Pollack

Night Wake Up Disaster Up Middle

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

Life Justice Day Men Death Evil

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

Mark Bradford

Political Question Everything