Christopher Buckley Quotes
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
Quotes to Explore
-
People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
-
The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
-
Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
-
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
-
I literally don't think about Oscar.
-
I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
-
I just respect Kanye as an artist.
-
Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.
-
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
-
'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
-
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
-
All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
-
Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
-
Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
-
Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
-
The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
-
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
-
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
-
We are rough men and used to rough ways.
-
When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.
-
My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.
-
You can't do business without money, of course, because that's how it works, but I'm not in business only for money.
-
The only people he knew of who would have leveled material advantage so that no one had any were of course those who had none to start with.
-
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
