#ff

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#between #church #difference #evil #experience

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#hat #lady #left #life #looks

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#conservatism #difficult #easy #easy way #express

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#around #art #artists #bohemian #could

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

Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#difficult #original #re-writing #very #writing

I'm a working stiff, baby, just like everybody else. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

#else #everybody #everybody else #i #just

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way. ↗

— John Oates

#because #difference #different #each #easy

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's. ↗

— Adam Oates

#anybody #calls #day #different #eat