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

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Community

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

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Mind
  • Accomplished

• I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Control
  • Air
  • Year

• India is a country of empty words, not action. Only repeating, 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' won't help. Learn to finish the race first in order to finish first.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
  • Help
  • Words

• I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Children
  • Experience

• The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

• To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.

  

  Anthony Charles Edwards
  • Important
  • Money
  • Career

• Auditions are hard. You should see what most of the women look like when I audition for things - they look like they should be on the catwalk.

  

  Mayim Bialik
  • Women

• I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Kids
  • Sweet
  • Big

• Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Good
  • God
  • Hand

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

  

  Christopher Buckley