Christopher Buckley Quotes
Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it.
Christopher Buckley
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
Laura Robson
My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
Vanessa Paradis
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
Dani Shapiro
The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
Hanna Rosin
Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
Otto Rank
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
Owen Glendower
My family was once invited to lunch at a chateau owned by a friend of a friend. As we drove our rental car up to the giant castle, my kids gasped and said, 'They must be rich!'
Pamela Druckerman
A dream, a dream, - it is all a dream, A strange, sad dream, good sooth; For old as I am, and old as I seem, My heart is full of youth.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Before I came out, people always asked me math questions. But once I became a woman, they stopped. There's unintended discrimination.
Vivienne Ming
..the light suggests no particular time of day or night in the paintings of Paul Cézanne ; it is not appropriated from morning or afternoon, sunlight or shadow.
Clyfford Still
This (stand-off) will not be resolved by military means, let's be clear about that.
Jack Straw
Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald Reagan chin-wagging with Jack Paar or Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon did, famously, go on 'Laugh In' in 1968, but as a candidate; and to his credit, he rued the day and hated every second of it.
Christopher Buckley
