Christopher Buckley Quotes

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

Christopher Buckley

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• How do people move on after they've lost the love of their life? It's a really interesting thing to look at. It happens to people every day: you see people... even in the worst, most war-torn places, people get up and continue with their lives. And it's a fascinating thing about human nature. That ability to just continue on.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Fire
  • Did

• If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Playing

• Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Opportunity
  • Change
  • Team

• I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Morning

• You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Best
  • Learn
  • Humor

• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • You
  • See
  • Yoga

• When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Opportunity
  • Cool

• People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • People
  • See
  • Eat

• Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Taken
  • Values
  • Abuse

• That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Great
  • Comedy

• I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Need
  • Something
  • Mature

• I pretty much preach, teach and nag.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Pretty
  • Teach
  • Preach

• What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Success

• Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.

  

  Larry David
  • Women
  • Crazy
  • Confidence

• If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Strategy
  • Sand

• My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Music
  • She

• I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • People
  • God
  • American

• When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Children

• ... all Americans are the prisoners of racial prejudice.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Racism
  • Prejudice
  • Prisoner

• I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Time
  • Children
  • Alone