P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Speed

Quotes about: Speed

• There's a lot of debate on this subject - about what kind of car handles best. Some say a a front-engined car, some say a rear-engined car. I say a rented car. Nothing handles better than a rented car. You can go faster, turn corners sharper, and put the transmission into reverse while going forward at a higher rate of speed in a rented car than in any other kind.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Car, Kind, Debate

• If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Running, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

• We are a nation that worships speed and power. And for good reason. Without power we would still be part of England and everybody would be out of work... Bicycles are too slow and impuissant for a nation like ours. They belong in Czechoslovakia.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Would Be, Modern Life, England

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

• Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Moving, Sloth, Noise

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.421, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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