Top 100 Buckley's Quotes
#1. My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
Rachel Bilson
#2. It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.
Germaine Greer
#3. I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.
Christopher Buckley
#5. There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?
Jeff Buckley
#6. The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing ... with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it's the life in between - that's all I got.
Jeff Buckley
#7. Mr. Schock smiled at Peter and raised his hand into the air. Peter instinctively struck it in a perfect high five. Mr. Schock's smile transformed into a puzzeled frown.
"Joshua, how did you...?"
"Peter used to do it," said Peter swiftly.
Linda Buckley-Archer
#8. There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.
Betty Buckley
#9. When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.
Betty Buckley
#10. Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.
Jeff Buckley
#12. It's called a repository spell. Makes something bigger on the inside than on the outside. Works great for bags, barrels, hats, just about anything really, even a 1963 police box.
Chuck
#14. If you're a speech writer for a president, you don't really see all that much of him because there's so many layers between you and him. But with a vice president, it's different.
Christopher Buckley
#15. I prefer rock music - my favorites are R.E.M. and Matthew Sweet - but I think that if Dr. Buckley played Matthew Sweet, some of her patients would not like it. Matthew Sweet has a song called "Sick of Myself," and I am pretty sure that is exactly the wrong song name for a therapist's waiting room.
Craig Lancaster
#16. Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.
Sarah J. Buckley
#17. If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not going to happen - I would still expect the headline on my obituary to read: 'Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, Jr., is dead at 78.'
Christopher Buckley
#18. Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#19. Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!"
"Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.
Michael Buckley
#20. Whilst the beautifully crafted image of Michel Angelo's youthful looking priestess
looks out from her position on the ceiling of the sistine chapel linked forever with
Heaven Earth and Time.
Daniel Peter Buckley
#21. The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.
Jeff Buckley
#23. It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
Betty Buckley
#25. Easy enough to fight when the monster kept its distance, easy enough to draw the line. But when the moster was literally outside the door, that's when your actions mattered. The hard choice wasn't opening the door. The hard choice was keeping it closed.
Carla Buckley
#26. My father would have been impressed by Barack Obama's mind and style and grace of manner, as well as by - I'm certain - his abilities as a writer.
Christopher Buckley
#27. All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.
Jeff Buckley
#28. A fire only spreads away from it's source, it never returns.
Keith Buckley
#30. Mum's serial misbehavior over the years had driven me, despairing, to write her scolding - occasionally scalding letters.
Christopher Buckley
#31. I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.
Christopher Buckley
#32. Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.
Tim Buckley
#33. Moreover, we are showing a dismaying tendency to recast God in Man's image.
James L. Buckley
#34. I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.
Christopher Buckley
#35. That's why crazy people are so dangerous. You think they're nice until they're chaining you up in the garage.
Michael Buckley
#36. It's great to be with William Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite one and you know you're right.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#37. '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
#38. Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness ...
William F. Buckley Jr.
#39. It's time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens - sometimes hundreds - of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny.
F.H. Buckley
#40. It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to making music over here because so much of American music has inspired me, whether it's Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen.
Tom Odell
#41. It's axiomatic that all husbands are impossible. But I also think it's axiomatic that women are slightly impossible.
Christopher Buckley
#42. Music is endless and even though I've heard a whole bunch of music from so many different places and fallen in love countless times with all kinds of different music.There's still something about it,I guess it's called Freedom.
Jeff Buckley
#43. But music seems to me to be the most closely identified with my soul. I mean, I feel that it's the best for me. It just gets into the bloodstream so quickly, for no reason at all. You can close your heart, and you can sleep even with your eyes closed, but you can never close your ears.
Jeff Buckley
#44. Writing's all I know. Frankly, I've never been able to do anything else.
Christopher Buckley
#45. I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.
Christopher Buckley
#46. There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like ... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
A. J. Buckley
#47. How did you know that we could get him to do whatever we want if we pretend he's in charge?" Sabrina asked Daphne.
"It's what I do with you" the little girl replied. "You two are exactly the same
Michael Buckley
#48. I feel the same way about every album. I think it's better than the one before. I have a strong feeling that you can't put out a record until you hate the last one you did because you have to make it better.
Jordan Buckley
#49. That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.
Christopher Buckley
#50. There's the moon asking to stay long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Jeff Buckley
#51. The bad jazz that a cat blows wails long after he's cut out.
Lord Buckley
#52. So what's with the crown?" Daphne asked.
Puck's eyes grew wide. "I'm the Prince of Fairies. Emperor of Pixies, Brownies, Hobgoblins, Elves and Gnomes. King of Tricksters and Prank-Players, spiritual leader to juvenile delinquents, layabouts and bad apples.
Michael Buckley
#53. Memorizing the writer's handbook doesn't make you a writer. It makes you a specialist, and it puts you to a class with people who were given the same training. You all share the same view from the same room.
Keith Buckley
#54. Sabrina leaned in and pressed her lips to Puck's. There was a little static shock that startled her and she stepped back with her hands on her mouth.
Michael Buckley
#55. I prefer to learn everything through music. If you want divinity, the music in every human being and their love for music is pretty much it. It's the big indication of their spirituality and their ability to love and make love, or feel pain or joy, and really manifest it, really be real.
Jeff Buckley
#56. So I'll wait for you ... And I'll burn Will I ever see your sweet return? Oh, will I ever learn? Oh, Lover, you should've come over Cause it's not too late.
Jeff Buckley
#57. My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.
Christopher Buckley
#58. You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
Christopher Buckley
#59. Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
Betty Buckley
#60. I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
Jeff Buckley
#61. I try to refrain from the alarmist statement, really I do. It's bad for the liver and worries the dog, who has plenty enough to worry about as it is.
Christopher Buckley
#62. People believe unbelievable things because it's self-flattering to think that you are intellectually daring enough to accept what others find preposterous.
Christopher Buckley
#63. And though the meaning fits, there's no relief in this. I miss my beautiful friend.
Jeff Buckley
#64. Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.
Jeff Buckley
#65. To explain too much is to steal a person's opportunity to learn, and stealing is against the Law.
Thomas Buckley
#66. Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.
Jeff Buckley
#67. If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power . . . - Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea
Christopher Buckley
#68. That woman is hiding something!" she said.
"You think everyone's hiding something."
"And you would hug the devil if he gave you cookies.
Michael Buckley
#69. William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.
Edwin Newman
#70. A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#71. How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to mix the martinis, one to change the light bulb, and one to reminisce about how good the old one was.
Christopher Buckley
#72. I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
Imogen Poots
#73. President Obama came to office proclaiming that he aims to solve problems, not hand them on to our children. Most presidents say that sort of thing.
Christopher Buckley
#75. The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'
Christopher Buckley
#76. Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll probably survive, but one way or the other, there's going to be a lot of throwing up.
Christopher Buckley
#77. There was an old, crazy dude who used to live a long time ago. His name was Lord Buckley. And he said, a long time ago, he said, 'People
they'r e kinda like flowers, and it's been a privilege walking in your garden.' My love goes with you.
Robin Williams
#78. It's human nature to view life from our own reality.
This causes serious problems when a rescue mission is being led by the senile or insane.
Jaime Buckley
#80. I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
Jeff Buckley
#81. Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to ... just to give back to it what it's given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it ... just to be in the world, really.
Jeff Buckley
#82. They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#83. She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever
Jeff Buckley
#84. Really, what's not to love in John McCain, satire-wise? As if he had not already been good enough to us, then came his nomination of Sarah Palin. Here, truly, was a gift from the gods of satire.
Christopher Buckley
#86. Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.
Christopher Buckley
#87. It's not whether your glass is empty or full, it's what you do with it that really matters.
Sue Nelson Buckley
#88. I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.
Pat Buckley
#89. That's the coolest thing I've ever seen," Puck said.
"How cool will it be when it kills us?" Sabrina asked.
"Considerably less cool," Puck replied.
Michael Buckley
#90. And each year now
we know more, but we know no better
what we see in the sky is simply
the softened gloss of the past sifting
back to us, and likewise, every atom
down the body's shining length
was inside a star, and will be again.
Christopher Buckley
#91. With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.
Christopher Buckley
#92. Unfortunately, the media, which are not at all reluctant to act in their own self-interest, have succeeded in equating reform in the public mind with further restrictions on just about everyone else's freedom of political speech.
James L. Buckley
#93. Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.
Jeff Buckley
#94. You ever heard of a guy named Jeff Buckley? He's one of the best singers I've ever heard.
Sebastian Bach
#95. 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
#96. How can one deduce the cause of "Hamlet" or "Saint Matthew's Passion"? What is the cause of inspiration?
William F. Buckley Jr.
#97. Love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah.
Jeff Buckley
#98. Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
James L. Buckley
#99. But, Dad! We can't leave. Uncle Jake is hurt!" Daphne said. "Besides, that's Pinocchio. I want to get an autograph.
Michael Buckley
#100. Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim.
Patricia Buckley
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