William Francis Buckley (William F. Buckley, Jr.) Quotes

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.

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• I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Never
  • See
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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Stress

• The making of documentaries for 'Humanoids From The Deep,' 'Galaxy Of Terror' and 'Forbidden World' are absolutely fascinating.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • World
  • Deep
  • Galaxy

• I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Nice
  • Beginning
  • Start

• I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Writing
  • Grandma
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• For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Most
  • Page
  • Twitter

• People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Happy
  • Crazy

• Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Justice
  • Sometimes
  • Blind

• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Look

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Silly

• When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Money
  • Change

• If the constitution goes, I go.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Constitution
  • Go
  • Goes

• I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Proud
  • Revolution

• I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Man
  • Me
  • Dad

• Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.

  

  Antero Alli
  • Skill
  • Coincidence
  • Synchronicity

• In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Family
  • Musicians

• The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

  

  Diana Ross
  • Time
  • Great
  • Firsts

• Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Book
  • Moon
  • Faces

• Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Book
  • Firsts
  • Philosophical