P. J. ORourke Quotes about Journalism

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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

P. J. O'Rourke

Joy, Faces, Journalism

P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.256, Atlantic Books Ltd

Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fiction, Strange, Journalism

One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, School, Journalism

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.89, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Journalism, Language

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.235, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.