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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• 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
  • Inspiration
  • Patience

• 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
  • Father
  • Me
  • Windows

• 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
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Give
  • Birth
  • Shalt

• Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.

  

  Owen Glendower
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.

  

  Carl Honore
  • May
  • Career
  • Best

• If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Afraid

• I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Hard

• I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Problem
  • Drug
  • Public

• I'm still wearing Target and hand-me-downs.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Hand
  • Still
  • Target

• The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Support
  • New
  • Build

• When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • People
  • House
  • Singing

• I'm learning with my mom how to cook more Spanish food. I'm trying to make a good paella, but that's a real art.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Trying

• I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Time
  • Actions

• At the bottom of Puritanism one finds envy of the fellow who is having a better time in the world, and hence hatred of him. At the bottom of democracy one finds the same thing. This is why all Puritans are democrats and all democrats are Puritans.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Option

• I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.

  

  James Howe
  • World
  • Serious
  • Professional

• I love going out. I love partying.

  

  Kit Harington

• Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Said
  • Institutions
  • Signs

• My grandmother used to really love fashion, and she always had Chanel No. 5 on her dressing table, and Chanel bags. That's when I really started falling in love with the brand and fashion in general.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • She
  • Fashion
  • Grandmother

• The moment I began to understand what was going on with the treatment of animals, it led me more and more in the way of the path I am [on] now, which is a complete vegan.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Path
  • Moment
  • Understand

• 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