#ect

Never fight an inanimate object. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#fight #inanimate #never #object

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#flattery #gossip #objects #present #say

People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#always #america #anger #angry #caused

Satire doesn't effect change. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#effect #satire

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#beat #begins #beirut #big #big city

Films were never in my budget. Didn't occur to me till much later. I hoped for a long, good life, which I've had and I'm having as an actor. I didn't expect the rest. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#budget #expect #films #good #good life

Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#housework #human #opposed #possibility #self-actualization

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#comedy #direction #gone #into #ironic

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#house #lives #made #nothing #our

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#am #another #art #comes #conflict