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P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Values Terrorism Libertarian Attack

I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands.

Family Time Best Writing Book Hands

Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed - chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.

Fool Fun Trees Long Down Run

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

John Mason Brown

Women Men America Land Where Rule

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.

Robert Hofstadter

Research Colleagues Award Personal

I want to thank Kotelnik for letting me have a shot at the title. I'm so confident I'm going to beat him. He thinks that me moving up a weight, I won't be as strong, but I'm very strong. I'm a hard-hitting fighter.

Me Moving Strong Confident Want Him

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

Hero Football Me Legend Out Status

Being a guitarist was scary, honestly, as a girl in Nashville. It just felt like no one was gonna ask me to be in a band and play guitar, like I never was gonna get asked to do that.

Girl Me Guitar Play Never Nashville

People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'

People Me Free Nobody Afraid Been

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.

Science Bridge Start You Create Two

I've little in common with the scene in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. I'm a New Yorker.

New Little San Francisco Valley San

I follow my instincts. Maybe I'd be more successful in my business and my private life if I did things like everybody else. But I just feel like I'm different from everybody else.

Life Business Feel More Follow Just

Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.

Photography Know Want More Never

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