P. J. O'Rourke Quotes

Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

I actually live right near a high school and I always walk by...I live in a high school. I actually live in the boiler room of a high school at night. When I see high school guys now I'm actually like, 'Thank f - king God I'm not in high school anymore because they look like they could kick the living s - t out of me.'

In every high school, there is a clique.

And in high school, people are always watching so there's always a reason to pose.

I hitchhiked at high school. My parents thought was a perfectly normal thing to do even though God knows I got blown a lot of times riding home from school.

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.

At Murry Bergtraum [High School] if you were really funny you sat at this table at with all of the funniest dudes, the toughest, the coolest - everybody sat at that table. It was like the ghetto Algonquin Round Table. [Comedy] was my entry, my membership card.

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

When I was younger, I used to be the cheater. But I'm not talking about going all the way.... I wasn't doing that in high school! I'd have boyfriends and then spring break would come around and I'd be a little bit naughty.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

Talk about high school and what we identify with in the play; things that have happened to us and all of our high school experiences that we could bring to this. And to talk about what everyone knows in each specific scene.

At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding.

My mom said the term heavy petting existed a lot when she was in high school.

Everybody is who he was in high school.

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.

Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.

I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high school, all my friends got into sororities and fraternities and I didn't.

When we’re alone together, I’m the destination. When I’m here in her life at school, I’m the disruption.

Everyone at school seems to go by a nickname. Kat, Frosty, Bronx, Boo Bear, Jelly Bean, Freckles.

I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.

I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.