Christopher Buckley Quotes

The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.

Christopher Buckley

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NationDeadlineNeedsNecessarily

With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct.

Jean Piaget

ChildRulesIntentionDownMoral

What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.

Roger Sessions

MusicExperienceAskProfoundFirst

To make this announcement fills me with great sadness, but I know I have been blessed in so many ways to have experienced what I have with the England rugby team.

Jonny Wilkinson

GreatMeTeamBlessedSadnessKnow

I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

Don Cornelius

LoveMusicSchoolEnoughTryNever

Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

Jon Anderson

MusicBeautifulGreatYes

It started in middle school. Once, a group of girls locked me in the janitor's closet. Another time, a girl spilled chocolate milk down a dress I made. Girls would try to trip me in the hallway.

Dove Cameron

GirlTimeSchoolDressMeChocolate

Administration policies seem to tacitly encourage those who live below sea level in New Orleans to relocate permanently, to leave the dangerous water's edge for more prosperous inland cities such as Shreveport or Baton Rouge.

Douglas Brinkley

LiveSeaWaterEdgeDangerousNew

There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade.

Shaquille O'Neal

TimePlanningYouParadeOutAnswer

I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.

Tyga

LifePositiveMusicMeNegative

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

Tyler Hilton

GoodGreatWhateverFictionAnything

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

Richard Steele

FireSlowTongueGossipDestruction

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu

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