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Christopher Buckley Quotes

Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.

Christopher Buckley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

War World Generation Laugh Madness

I'll always build houses.

Jeremy Renner

Build Always Houses

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts.

Stephen Graham

Art Happy College Me Doing Whatever

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

Stephen Hawking

Think Universe Understanding Would

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

Ronnie Wood

Words Waiting Start Think Nice Out

Anywhere you had a commerce center, you had a lot of music.

Ruben Blades

Music You Center Commerce Anywhere

The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.

Judy Smith

Success Focus Ambition You Downfall

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

Julia Child

Time Job Cake Ideas You Find

In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it's not just hair. I mean, I'm interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Beauty Hair Black Political Want

When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.

Christian Louboutin

Winter Good Light Creative Cold Go

Photography, sculpture, and painting were wielded as cultural weapons over the course of generations to substantiate the idea that black people were inherently subordinate beings; they were used to make slavery acceptable and to make black subjugation more palatable.

Clint Smith

People Painting Slavery Black More

I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face.

Peter Bergen

Leader Face You Blood Navy Bedroom

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

Pete Rose

Baseball Me Brain Year You Body