Christopher Buckley Quotes
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
Karin Slaughter -
Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
Harold Washington -
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
Oscar Niemeyer -
I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
Larry Dixon -
We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?
Frances Beinecke
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
Jack White The White Stripes -
The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
Tariq Ali -
I don't come from a famous family and don't have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I'm just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.
Ed Westwick -
Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people.
Tawakkol Karman -
When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.'
Walt Mossberg
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Gaston Bachelard -
It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
F. W. de Klerk -
Was die Menschen unter den andern Bildungen der Erde, das sind die Künstler unter den Menschen.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran -
I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
Bette Davis -
It mocks me as it flies, I know: All too soon the gleam will go; Yet I love it and shall love My dream that brooks no narrower bars Than bind the darkening heavens above, My Jack o'Lanthorn of the stars: Then, I'll follow it no more, I'll light the lamp: I'll close the door.
Alfred Noyes
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
Alan Ball -
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Barack Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist.
Alan Keyes -
Some people call me Dougie Fresh. I don't know why.
Douglas Booth -
Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego.
Stuart Wilde -
My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.
Christopher Buckley