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Christopher Buckley Quotes

As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.

Christopher Buckley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 28, 1952

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Gold World Building Financial You

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Joe Biden

Saying Believe Know Want Comfortable

I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to get a West End show. So, when I was offered jobs in Stoke or Leicester or whatever, I'd say no. Eventually, I got 'Godspell.' It was gently building.

Jeremy Irons

Work Gardening Building End Doing

My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.

Jeffrey Donovan

Life Mom Three Welfare Us Herself

The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.

Amy Bloom

Beauty Happiness Problem Glory Real

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

Miguel de Unamuno

Vision You Neighbor True Him Own

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

Michael Patrick King

Life Romantic Losing Writing Start

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

Jason Silva

Future Day Stress Die Look Know

The Premier League is the place to be.

David Silva

Place League Premier League Premier

I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

David Sylvian

Music People World Loved Back Go

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

Brian Harris

Failure Socialism Wealth Product Own

The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Beautiful Simple Universe Elegant

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.

Pia Zadora

Butterfly Purpose Me World Small