Christopher Buckley Quotes

Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.

Christopher Buckley

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• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • You
  • Life Is A

• I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Stop

• I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Think
  • Vision
  • Politics

• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Life
  • Years
  • Insurance

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Long
  • Film
  • Doing

• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Wait
  • Late

• For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.

  

  Xenophon
  • Strong
  • Water
  • Beer

• What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listen

• I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kids

• I always demanded respect. I came prepared and expected others to do the same.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Respect

• We promised the Iraqi people freedom, democracy, security and a new and far better life.

  

  Anthony Zinni
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• Hey, hey, what I'm sayin' is -Do it to me one more time.Oh, give you one more chance,This heart of mine.Do it to me one more time, baby.Can't get enough of your love!

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Baby

• It's not my liking for guns, what about the NRA? We all have the rights to bear arms, I have that, I have that same right as you do. Just because I'm black doesn't mean I shouldn't have a gun; I legally own guns.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Right
  • Have
  • Guns

• Life is unfair. I got nothing but the best.

  

  Jean Marais
  • Life

• I have been with some great organizations, crossed paths with special people, and made numerous lasting relationships.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • People
  • Great

• We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.

  

  Brian Schweitzer

• My mom was the center of my support system, that place I always went to talk things through, whether I was feeling joy or fear. She was always there with a huge, open heart and the best advice.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Heart
  • She
  • Feeling

• Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.

  

  Drew Houston
  • World
  • School
  • High

• A most highly multiplying trait in point of far-reaching influences is that of ability to discover and use strong men. This trait stands out impressively in Rothschild's 'Lincoln, Master of Men'.

  

  John Mott
  • Men
  • Strong

• I have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

  

  William Jones
  • Important
  • Morality
  • Scripture

• Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I've worked so hard to make sure that I survive.

  

  Chris Hadfield
  • Risk

• Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Human

• Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.

  

  Christopher Buckley