911 Quotes by P. J. O'Rourke


  • Author P. J. O'Rourke
  • Quote

    Taxi drivers all over the world, by the way, are under Newspaper Guild contract to give easy quotes to foreign correspondents.

  • Tags
  • Share


  • Author P. J. O'Rourke
  • Quote

    If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

  • Tags
  • Share


  • Author P. J. O'Rourke
  • Quote

    Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author P. J. O'Rourke
  • Quote

    I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

  • Share

  • Author P. J. O'Rourke
  • Quote

    The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author P. J. O'Rourke
  • Quote

    The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

  • Tags
  • Share