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" Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Power
Car
Giving
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" Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And so it's up to you to take control of your own life and define you. As long as you understand who you are and you have a solid foundation of understanding what your talents are, what your skills are. "
Stedman Graham
Life
Religion
People
" Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books. "
Michael A. Stackpole
Books
Publishing
Digital
" Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. "
Tama Janowitz
Will
Gone
Good
" Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself. "
Ray Comfort
Book
Car
Nature
" Fascism is very much a mob movement. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Much
Fascism
Mob
" Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Treatment
Insurance
Care
" The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.' "
P. J. O'Rourke
Space
Age
Furniture
" A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles. "
Jenson Button
People
Work
Car
" 'LaFerrari' means 'the Ferrari.' The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience, extreme capability. And this has been the first Ferrari totally designed in our design center. "
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
Technology
Experience
Car
" The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something. "
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Creative
Car
Ride
" There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Race
Religion
Two
" I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago. "
Chris O'Donnell
Drive
New Car
Smart
" The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Street
Window
Design
" I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk. "
Action Bronson
Music
Day
Life
" Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Minds
Facts
Up
" People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby. "
Jordana Brewster
Fun
Baby
Car
" If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving? "
Mario Andretti
Car
Driving
Neighbor
" The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Foreign
People
Purpose
" I'm a political conservative. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Conservative
Political
" I was very lucky growing up, and I got all my dad's and aunts' toys from the 1950s and 1960s and loved those old pedal cars. "
Jasmine Guinness
Growing Up
Lucky
Toys
" Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car. "
Laurence J. Peter
Car
Church
Christian
" Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Run
Politicians
Political
" Regulation creates a moral hazard. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Hazard
Regulation
Moral
" Never fight an inanimate object. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Object
Fight
Funny
" Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall. "
Richard Petty
Cotton
Right
Over
" I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter. "
Mary Quant
Remember
Myself
Laughter
" I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, 'Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.' "
Rolf Harris
Beard
American
Car
" I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car. "
Steven Wright
Car
He
Funeral
" A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Kindle
Electronic
Us
" We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur. "
Dolores Huerta
Run
Down
Us