P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Sailing

Quotes about: Sailing

• 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

• There are a lot of mysterious things about boats, such as why anyone would get on one voluntarily.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Mysterious Things, Sailing

  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.144, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Australia, Sailing

  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.145, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I don't think I'll ever be a real boat reporter. My Rolex isn't big enough.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Real, Thinking

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.126, Atlantic Books Ltd

• This is the most elaborate and luxurious method of convincing others that you can cook. Take everybody out on your yacht until they're green in the face. Then you can rave for weeks about your sauce marinara and no one will gainsay you.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Sailing, Green

  P. J. O'Rourke (1987). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, Pocket

• The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborgini to the Gran Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Race, America

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

• A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Sailing, Boat

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.429, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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