Christopher Buckley Quotes

Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.

Christopher Buckley

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• I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Courageous

• Global governance cannot be limited to the crafting of instruments related to the promotion of democracy. A key component must be the creation of fair and equitable rules to enhance the development prospects of developing countries.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Democracy
  • Rules
  • Key

• I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Inspiration
  • Look
  • Philosophy

• You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Work
  • Free

• I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Witty

• I'm a professional world champion. Of course if you're a world champion, you're working harder than everybody else. You're making the commitment, and you're making the sacrifices. If it were easy, everybody would be able to do it. Everybody would be able to be world champion, but everybody can't be. Everybody doesn't have it in them.

  

  Laila Ali
  • World
  • Professional
  • Commitment

• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• I don't think fashion is evil.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • Evil

• I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Women
  • Me
  • Wish

• It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are so low.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Food
  • Military

• High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

  

  Zac Efron
  • School
  • High
  • Gift

• Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Child
  • Moment

• There is not adequate whistleblower protection.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Protection
  • Adequate

• Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Black
  • Color
  • Black-and-white

• Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Never
  • Revolution
  • Place

• The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Life
  • Women
  • Sex

• Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Future
  • Change

• Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Mind
  • Accomplished

• The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Business
  • Wall

• About 10 minutes [into the dinner] my sister texted me and said, "Maria, I just wanted to let you know that you're on TV live. You're front and center." I thought, 'Oh God, I'm right behind Donald Trump and in the camera shot. After that I stopped moving. I just sat there. It was funny. I was delighted that people noticed my white gloves. It was a white tie dinner, for the dais you had to be in white tie. If I can't channel my best Sophia Loren glamour for a white tie affair, when can I? I thought it was an excellent opportunity to wear the white gloves.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• I never thought about doing anything other than making art.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Art

• Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Important
  • Money
  • Guy

• The only sort of tasks worth being set were impossible ones.

  

  Brian Aldiss

• Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.

  

  Christopher Buckley