Top 98 Quotes by Christopher Buckley

About Christopher Buckley

These are some quotes by American author Christopher Buckley Novelist, who was born on September 28, 1952.

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

Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

Christopher Buckley

I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.

I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.

Christopher Buckley

There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.

There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.

Christopher Buckley

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.

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

The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or diaries, lest they be subpoenaed by avid special prosecutors.

The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or diaries, lest they be subpoenaed by avid special prosecutors.

Christopher Buckley

My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.

Christopher Buckley

I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.

I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.

Christopher Buckley

I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.

I haven't left the Republican Party. It left me.

Christopher Buckley

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

Christopher Buckley

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