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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.

P. J. O'Rourke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Fun Fall Wall Being There Europe

From the age of 15 to 50, I'd hardly stepped out of a kitchen. I just wanted to live a little, to spend time with my wife and children. The first time I saw snow was when I was 50, because I'd never had the time before.

Joel Robuchon

Live Snow Age Children Time Wife

I usually don't wear makeup, and if I do, it's later in the day if I have to get my act together for work for some reason.

Jennifer Garner

Work Day Together Makeup Reason Act

Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, 'I'm thinking about you and I want to please you.'

Andrew Hudgins

Time Saying Thinking You Want Way

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Anatole France

Men War Violence Ready Will Way

She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

John Henrik Clarke

Woman Color Dark White She Until

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You Body Spirit

I am often able to hear what people are thinking.

Matt Hardy

I Am People Thinking Able Hear Am

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

John Philip Sousa

Teacher Progress Student Always Own

I think human beings have a really broad spectrum of traits, and I almost feel implicated when we say, 'Men are like this, women are like this.' Nobody was telling me, 'Don't get dirty, don't play in the mud, girls don't do that.'

St. Vincent

Women Men Me Think Feel Play

Traditionally, Young Republicans have been a leading indicator of the direction of the party.

Roger Stone

Direction Party Young Leading Been

Wikipedia's a collaborative experiment akin to Simon Winchester's account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary in 'The Professor and the Madman,' which outlines James Murray's mission to produce the tome in the 19th century.

Mary H.K. Choi

Mission Creation Experiment Professor

I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.

Liz Murray

Losing Parents Me World Living