Christopher Buckley Quotes

I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.

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• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Nice
  • Makeup

• I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Write

• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Humor
  • Head
  • Tragedy

• These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Power
  • Equality

• I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Trying

• The thing about games is, players often say they don't care about story, but then if you took the story out, what would their reaction be? If no one cared about story, we'd all still be playing Pac-Man. There's nothing wrong with Pac-Man, but the point is, there's a genre of games in which you want to become part of that world.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • World
  • Care
  • Story

• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

  

  Pat Riley
  • Up
  • Important
  • Voice

• A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Too Much

• I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Trying
  • Find

• I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Change
  • Need
  • Whatever

• Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mother

• Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Want
  • See
  • Old

• When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Race
  • London

• It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Help
  • Self
  • Step

• The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Today
  • Amazing
  • Confidence

• I was born with the biggest middle finger on Earth.

  

  Eminem
  • Earth

• Men out of fear will cling to the thing they most fear.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men
  • Fear

• The word 'theatrical' makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Believe
  • True
  • Word

• Everyday we act in ways that reflect our ethical judgements.

  

  Peter Singer
  • Everyday

• My experience is in merging extraordinary creative content with innovative global commerce.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Experience
  • Creative

• If you compromise, and then you succeed, that's another kind of feeling. But if you compromise and fail, it's two failures at least.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Feeling

• It is my goal to learn as much about the people I'm surrounded by. I am slowly widening who I am close with, and at the same time, growing further away from others.

  

  Josh Schwartz
  • Learn
  • Close
  • Surrounded

• I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.

  

  Christopher Buckley