Christopher Buckley Quotes
Top 79 wise famous quotes and sayings by Christopher Buckley
Christopher Buckley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power . . . - Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.
I can say this, now that my own beloved and irreplaceable parents are gone: George and Barbara Bush are parents anyone would kill to have.
The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or 'Daddy,' Party.
President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our children. Most presidents say that sort of thing.
Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.
It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.
I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.
My father would have been impressed by Barack Obama's mind and style and grace of manner, as well as by - I'm certain - his abilities as a writer.
I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.
I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.
The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.
A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.
With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.
One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.
I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush.
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.
Cindy McCain has emerged as a definite hottie. I think that sometimes happens to women in their early fifties.
As you know, divorce is still not allowed in the Catholic Church. But here insert a large 'however' - she is liberal in the granting of annulments.
Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.
It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.
Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.
There. But as they were in a public place and as she was dressed like a nun, he refrained. "Come, hurry!" he said
There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.
Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.
I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning.
I've lived in Washington since 1981 and have been a faithful reader of 'The Washington Post' ever since.