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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sad Problem Bad Television Become

A band like Avenged Sevenfold I've praised quite a bit publicly, because it's a band that has moved into that arena-size thing for a hard rock band.

Rock Band Hard Because Rock Band

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

Health Quality Training Child Care

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Blame Computers More Human Even Err

I always want to give the victim a voice.

Voice Want Always Victim Give

The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it.

Government Competition Smart People

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.

Rosemary Mahoney

Life Best Experience Joy People

The explosive growth of the for-profit school industry has had disastrous effects on millions of Americans and our economy.

Growth School Economy Industry Our

I would say it's important for scientists to speak out when they can and when they can be listened to.

Speak Important Say Out Would

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

Done True Shakespeare Few Plays

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Fear Ice Will Bear More See

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.

Dominic Monaghan

Mom Loved Laugh Enjoy Kind Always

When you finish a record, I look at it like a photograph. It's already taken. You got it the way you wanted it to be. You edit it, make sure the light and contrast are right, then you just put it away, and that's your photograph. Then you don't really think about it anymore.

Light Think You Look Way Right

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