P J Tracy Quotes

There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven't started yet. ~ P.J. Tracy

God made ice for hockey and scotch, and that's about it. ~ P.J. Tracy

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'...the one and only time in his career he'd been tempted to draw his weapon was when a swarm of gnats had descended on him in the motel parking lot. And what was so wrong about killing all the insects? Who cared if the frogs died with them? The only thing frogs were good for was keeping the insect population down, and clearly they were lousy at that. ~ P.J. Tracy

When the sun comes out in Hawaii, it warms up. When the sun comes in Puerto Vallarta, it warms up. when the sun comes out in Minnesota in January, you just go snow-blind. ~ P.J. Tracy

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

He then reaches a new low. Without warning, he is suddenly set upon by a bear. ~ P.J. Hetherhouse

Money is preferable to politics. It is the difference between being free to be anybody you want and to vote for anybody you want. And money is more effective than politics both in solving problems and in providing individual independence. To rid ourselves of all the trouble in the world, we need to make money. And to make money, we need to be free. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together. ~ P. J. Soles

Sam, I want that to be us. I want to stand up in church in front of our family and friends and make you my wife. I want them to listen to me say my vows to you and watch me slide my ring on your finger. I want them to see you wear my mark. I want to marry you, Sam. ~ P.J. Fiala

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Who does Bill Clinton think got off the boat and stepped on Plymouth Rock? Peace Corps volunteers? ~ P. J. O'Rourke

I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal. ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Do you not recognize me? ~ P.J. Parker

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries. ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

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

Bachelors know all about parties. In fact, a good bachelor is a living, breathing party all by himself. At least that is what my girlfriend said when she found the gin bottles under the couch. I believe her exact words were, "You're a disgusting, drunken mess." And that's a good description of a party, if it's done right. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing. ~ P.J. Harvey

The free market tells us what people are willing to pay for a given thing at a given moment. That's all the free market does. The free market is a bathroom scale. We may not like what we see when we step on the bathroom scale, but we can't pass a law making ourselves weigh 165. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise. ~ P. J. Soles

Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

The Chinese had gunpowder, but it didn't occur to them to put it in a gun. They possessed the compass but didn't go anywhere. They invented paper, printing, and a written form of their language, but hardly anyone in China was taught to read. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

You can't get good chinese takeout in China and cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That's all you need to know about communism. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

My ignorance is widespread. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Industrialization came to England but has since left. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Developing nations want to become developed nations. ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

To say that you have lived, you first have to live; not merely exist. ~ P.J. Roscoe