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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

P. J. O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Car Heart Day You Person Now

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

John Nelson Darby

Character Death Earth First Here

Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bringing it back into my life. I trained from the ages of 11 to 17. When I moved to New York and got into serious acting, I just kind of abandoned the whole singing thing. But when I grew up in Pennsylvania I went to voice lessons once a week.

Amanda Seyfried

Life Love New York Singing Voice

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.

Steven Tyler

Building Airplane Thinking Back Need

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

Tori Amos

Life Yourself People Push You Your

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

Tony Scott

Look Back Movies Always Reinvent

If you feel like it's hard to be friends with women, consider that maybe women aren't the problem. Maybe it's just you.

Roxane Gay

Women Feel Friends Problem You Hard

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

Louis Farrakhan

Life Truth Brother Saying Regret

After college, I went on a real big classics kick. Read everything by Faulkner, Hemingway, Woolf, Proust, Dostoevsky. And that classics train dropped me off at 'Dracula.' Halfway through it, I understood I'd never be going back, never 'leaving' the genre again. Since then, I've been on a fairly strict horror diet.

Josh Malerman

College Me Diet Back Train Leaving

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

Jonathan Carroll

Me You Dangerous Try Write Audience

Having had polio never held me back as I got older. Although having one leg smaller than the other isn't much fun, I could always get about without any trouble. Luckily, in the music industry, everyone was only interested in my singing and playing and not the size of my legs.

Donovan

Music Fun Me Singing Back Trouble

I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.

Alisher Usmanov

I Am Team Republic Part Am Former

In much the same way Ip Man embodied the struggles of the Chinese people, I wanted Gong Er to represent the changing role of women.

Wong Kar-wai

Women Man People Way Same Struggles