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

• I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Experience
  • History
  • Student

• 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

• I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Why
  • Change
  • Environment

• 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 like to play by my own rules.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Play
  • Like
  • Rules

• 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

• You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • School
  • Technology

• 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

• Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

  

  Jessica Livingston
  • Years
  • Enough
  • Bigs

• Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Soldiers
  • Slaves
  • Chains

• O sacred solitude! divine retreat! Choice of the prudent! envy of the great, By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade, We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Wisdom
  • Stream
  • Prudent

• What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

  

  Alma Guillermoprieto
  • Wonder
  • California

• Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Land
  • Fine
  • Ship

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

  

  Christopher Buckley