"The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Jobs Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Scary Quotes

“I want to do weird things and big budget things and no budget things. I don't have a five-year plan.”
“It feltâ€”nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinosâ€”that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.”
“It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you?”
“I never have time to myself; it's the one thing about my life I would probably hope to change.”
“Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.”
“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”
“But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small seed of information passed from one generation to another may generate a new science, a new industry-a seed which neither the giver nor the receiver can truly evaluate at the time.”
“I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men.”

You may also like:

Christopher Guest
Baron Haden-Guest
Frederic Bastiat
Economist
H. L. Mencken
Journalist
Henry Beard
Author
Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist
Jann Wenner
Publisher
Thomas Gray
Poet
Tony Hendra
Writer
William O. Douglas
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States