Christopher Buckley Quotes

I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Think

• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Real
  • Blues
  • Captain

• I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It's just so important to always keep your skin moisturised.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Important
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Believe
  • Health
  • Confidence

• Companies are hiring cosplayers to be promotional spokes models for them. There are cosplayers trying to develop a cult following even though they've only been cosplaying for less than a year or two. It's all about the social media or Facebook likes.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Trying
  • Year
  • Media

• I can't go on. I'll go on.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Go
  • Moving On

• True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Intelligence

• The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government... Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • American
  • Law
  • Government

• Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Way
  • You
  • Wrong

• I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Cinema

• Never marry someone in hope that they'll change later.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Someone

• The best leaders over the long term are those who have a sound home life.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Long
  • Home

• The thing running through me is the same thing that writes songs. It's the fighter about to get into the ring. It's like, I'm not here to entertain you; I'm here to get this out, whatever it is.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Me
  • Running
  • Same

• It doesn't matter if you're small, big, or fit: if you go in front of the camera and deliver and say, 'Oh my God, I look amazing,' and just be sure about yourself, everything will be perfect.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • God
  • Small
  • Perfect

• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Friends

• Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

  

  Johnny Kelly Black Label Society

• I had always regarded language as more a question of utility than identity. Therefore, I promptly noted that all the (EU) meetings should be conducted in English and French. My older colleagues laughed. Later I understood why. On the second day of the Finnish presidency (of the EU) a German delegation refused to participate in an informal ministerial meeting because no German interpretation had been arranged.

  

  Alexander Stubb
  • Language
  • Meetings
  • Interpretation

• I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I leave the room, I think most say, 'She's OK.'

  

  Ertharin Cousin
  • I Think
  • Lucky
  • Open

• All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having; their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen universe, the initiated adept, by using the vision of his own spirit, can know all that has been known or can be known.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Light
  • Universe
  • Vision

• The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn - the end of the 19th century, when we achieved power a generation after the Civil War, the outlines of an American vision came into focus, and what we - it was based on two things. One, our realization that our values and our interests were the same, and that our business interests would advance as our values advanced in the world.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • World
  • War
  • Focus

• I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.

  

  Christopher Buckley