Christopher Buckley Quotes

I remember standing in the crow's nest as we entered the misty Panama Canal, and the strange sensation as the 4,000-ton ship rose higher and higher inside the lock.

Christopher Buckley

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RoseShipRememberStrangeNest

People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I always felt a little on the outside. And as such, you're always observing things. So, I'd be kind of re-creating these things in my mind, and I think drawing it was a way to deal with that.

Jim Lee

LifeTodayBe KindPeopleMindMe

A man who's never seen war is like a woman who's never given birth - soft in the head.

Andrei Platonov

WomanManWarNeverBirthHead

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Andrew Cuomo

EducationSupportBelieveBattleNew

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

Angelina Jolie

WomenFunCoolToughSexySexuality

Popularity is given to you, and if you think that just because you're really popular you're a better person, it could be a real crash when you find the popularity goes down.

Amy Tan

Better PersonThinkBetterYouDown

The world probably wishes that Great Britain had rebuilt its defenses and stopped Germany from reoccupying the Rhineland in 1936.

Tom Cotton

GreatWorldWishesGreat BritainHad

When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating.

Michio Kaku

TimePastRelaxProblemYouPlay

I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters.

Miranda July

WritingGenerationFriendsLetters

Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.

Liu Yang

FamilyBabySoarNeverEaglesWing

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

Brett Ratner

LoveFatherChildMeMomWhy

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.

Arthur Lydiard

GoodThinkingSpeedYouEndurance

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

William Gilmore Simms

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