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Christopher Buckley Quotes

I'd been told, or warned, that when you paint one room, not only will it look nice, but it will also make the room next to it look as if raccoons have been living in it for the past decade.

Christopher Buckley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Past You Look Nice Living Will

Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I'm comfortable with.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Decision Wife Comfortable Band Hard

I actually find Los Angeles, in the daily sense, a quite normal place to live. It is certainly contingent upon how normal the person living there might be. I don't think you have to look far in any city to see people looking for the right answer in the wrong place.

John Hensley

Live Daily People City Looking Look

I do most of my work on the stage, and typically once the show is over, it's over.

Robert Michael Morris

Work Over Stage Show Most Once

To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

Jeff Kinney

Amazing Hands Kind Meet Out Kids

Every decision that they take has enormous consequences, and ripple out from the White House.

Sidney Blumenthal

Decision Ripple Consequences House

I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's written. You write it; if you're lucky, it's performed, and that's the end of the whole thing.

Tom Stoppard

End You Desire Lucky Write Need

I always wanted that house where everybody wants to go, full of energy, dogs, music, fun.

Rob Lowe

Music Fun Energy House Go Dogs

Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.

Rush Limbaugh

Money More Federal Reserve Rescue

I still wear my write-in wristband. It used to be plastic, but my husband turned it into gold.

Lisa Murkowski

Gold Husband Plastic Wear Used

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

DeWitt Clinton

Knowledge Power Shadow Space Wealth

I learned a long time ago to be honest when I'm talking to other artists. Up-and-coming artists used to come and say something, they would have a demo reel, and I would try to tell them the truth. I don't go up and say something unless I really feel it.

Common

Truth Time Feel Talking Long Go

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

You Look Way Anything Own Cult