Bucky's Quotes

#1. Bucky's garage was a two-bay cinder block structure that sat like an island in a sea of cars. New cars, old cars, smashed cars, rusted cars, cars that had signed on for the vital organ program,

Janet Evanovich

#2. I asked Joe if he hated Ivy and Bucky. He said, "That would make as much sense as hating a rattlesnake. You don't hate rattlesnakes; you avoid them.

Maria Semple

#3. We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.

Bucky Sinister

#4. There are only two things a manager needs to know: When to change pitchers and how to get along with your players.

Bucky Harris

#5. Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit?
A: Peanut shells on the floor.

Bucky Sinister

#6. I just wouldn't have believed a ball could be hit that hard. I've never seen anything like it.

Bucky Harris

#7. I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.

Bucky Pope

#8. Fighting beside Bucky was a bit like guarding the back of a rampaging bear, but it was a role Tobias had played a hundred times back in school. For all his mild manners, Buckingham Penner was a full-steam-ahead kind of fighter with little regard for sneak attacks from behind.

Emma Jane Holloway

#9. I'm not opinionated; you're just wrong.
-Bucky

Darby Conley

#10. Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant?
A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.

Bucky Sinister

#11. Bucky B. Katt: I'm not closed minded you're just wrong

Darby Conley

#12. Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.

Darby Conley

#13. I think I took a few stabs at writing socially conscious lyrics. I had never intended to write a song about the Gulf War, but when I wrote "Before You Hit The Floor," I didn't know what the hell was going on in the world.

Bucky Pope

#14. Maximum Rocknroll
didn't have a map section.
How was I supposed to know
that Berkeley was not
a neighborhood of San Francisco?

Bucky Sinister

#15. That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair.

Bucky Harris

#16. They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're young or you become an addict if you don't die.
If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem.

Bucky Sinister

#17. Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what I did with my poetry, ask people to feel sorry for me. I got sober and I realized I have to get out of the pity thing; it's not going anywhere for me. I don't want to have any self-pity.

Bucky Sinister

#18. Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.

Bucky Pope

#19. Though a smile is little work, its effects are long lasting.

Bucky Buckbinder

#20. Baseball cannot avoid conflicts. Games are played on Good Friday, the most solemn day on the Christian calendar. On Oct. 2, 1978, they played on Rosh Hashana, and Bucky Dent hit one into the screen at Fenway Park. Supply your own moral.

George Vecsey

#21. Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.

Bucky Sinister

#22. Three cheers for Sheriff Wilson. - Bucky Dideron

Annette Curtis Klause

#23. There was my other big misconception. That if I got sober and went to a meeting they'd make me believe in God. Not true. They ask you to believe in a higher power. You need a higher power, but it doesn't have to be a super-natural entity. You have all this power inside you.

Bucky Sinister

#24. I was part of punk's second generation, so, not the first wave of '70s punk, but the American hardcore scene. I had a really strong love for music prior to that, but punk created a new template.

Bucky Pope

#25. A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going.

Bucky Pope

#26. Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

Bucky Sinister

#27. It will be in the key of delicious. - Bucky

Darby Conley

#28. - Bucky dear, his wife warned, you're slurring your words. - Slurring is the cursive of speech, I observed.

Amor Towles

#29. It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.

Bucky Pope

#30. I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.

Bucky Pope

#31. I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.

Bucky Pope

#32. Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.

James Ellroy

#33. Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.

Bucky Sinister

#34. Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?

Bucky Sinister

#35. We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.

Richard Smalley