P. J. O'Rourke Quotefest 2004

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:50 am

"What sir, you would make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I pray excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense".

Bonaparte to Robert Fulton ,when presented with the idea of a steamship.

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:49 am

"We are surrounded....
That simplifies our problem..."

Chesty Puller

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 11:54 am

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
-Kurt Vonnegut

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:06 pm

"Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. "-Betty Friedan

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:30 pm

Joel, you've really got a gem there. Dan

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:32 pm

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up and
hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

---------Sir Winston Churchill----------

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:54 pm

"â€˜Cause, "Cake or death?" That's a pretty easy question. Anyone could answer that.
"Cake or death?"
"Eh, cake please."
"Very well! Give him cake!"
"Oh, thanks very much. It's very nice."
"You! Cake or death?"
â€œUh, cake for me, too, please."
"Very well! Give him cake, too! We're gonna run out of cake at this rate. You! Cake or death?"
"Uh, death, please. No, cake! Cake! Cake, sorry. Sorry..."
"You said death first, uh-uh, death first!"
"Well, I meant cake!"
"Oh, all right. You're lucky I'm Church of England!" Cake or death?""
-Eddie Izzard

kilngod · Post by **kilngod** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:35 pm

Excellent! - Mr. Burns

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:02 pm

"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."-Mel Brooks

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:34 pm

When did I realize I was god? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized
I was talking to myself.

Peter O`Toole

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 2:42 pm

Politicians are interested in people.
Not that this is a good thing.
Fleas are interested in dogs.

P.J. O`Rourke

kilngod · Post by **kilngod** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:20 pm

I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right. -- Dubya, 7/22/01

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 9:22 pm

"Now you think that I am looking back at my life's work with calm
satisfaction. But, on closer look, it is quite different. There is
not a single concept of which I am convinced that it will stand firm
and I am not sure if I was on the right track after all".

A Einstein

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:29 am

Every normal man must be tempted at times
to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag,
and begin slitting throats.

H.L. Mencken

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:04 am

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. -George S. Patton

Sensei · Post by **Sensei** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:14 pm

"“The Boston Red Sox essentially, is a pile of money (over $100 million in payroll this year - that's $100,000,000.00!)) to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance... It goes about its business as if it were immortal, with the single purpose of becoming a bigger pile of money” - Sensei

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:43 pm

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win,
you`re still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

kilngod · Post by **kilngod** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 1:48 pm

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own. - No. 6

tisha2 · Post by **tisha2** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:38 pm

"Every day I want to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. It makes planning the day very difficult."

~E.B. White

Magikal · Post by **Magikal** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:19 am

"If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge
admission."

-Lenny Bruce

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 6:24 am

"I voted then, for Saddam, of course, because I was afraid. But this time, I came here by my own choice. I am not afraid any more. I am a free man."
JABAR AHMED ISMAIL, 75, who voted on the Iraq constitution.

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:20 am

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
-Catherine Aird-

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:36 am

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler

Magikal · Post by **Magikal** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:18 am

"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."

-Oscar Wilde

"Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent. Leave that to me."

-Eminem

joel the ornery · Post by **joel the ornery** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 6:42 am

"Somebody said 'I'm either flippin' burgers or sellin' some drugs,'" said Bill Cosby, echoing a common complaint of young people in poor communities. "But people flippin' burgers never seem to say 'I want to be the manager of the burger place.'"

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 7:40 am

It's almost too early for coffee and the sun glares at me as it pulls itself over the windowsill, but I'm happy. I'm making an omelet. I'm standing in the kitchen, whistling in my boxer shorts, and my testicles are swinging in perfect time. It's going to be a great day. It's already a great morning and the first egg I broke was a double yolk. The rest of the eggs are quite normal, as is the milk, and the butter, and just when I reach for an onion to liven things up, three mice appear from behind the toaster. They are dressed like Mexican bandits and they demand my cheese. They have little sombreros, little pistols, and the one in the middle has its whiskers waxed into a handlebar mustache. As I stand there pondering the intricate mechanics of their tiny firearms, they inch across the counter and repeat their demands. No one moves. The only sound is the slow suck of hot water through coffee grains. Just then the toaster goes off and we are all struck by the image of hot toast framed against a window full of angry sun.

Jamey Dunham

kilngod · Post by **kilngod** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:57 pm

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
- HST (Hunter, not Harry)

This applies to all that have posted here.

EvilDustBooger · Post by **EvilDustBooger** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:57 am

We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:18 pm

"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex."

Ike

can't sit still · Post by **can't sit still** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:55 pm

Kamau Kambon, a university professor had this to say during an interview on C-span.

" And the one idea is, how we are going to exterminate white people because that in my estimation is the only conclusion I have come to. We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet to solve the problem."

I'll give you 3 guesses what he teaches.

P. J. O'Rourke Quotefest 2004

who'd have thunk! certainly not the elite left