SL Buckley Quotes

The parallels between making love and giving birth are clear, not only in terms of passion and love, but also because we need essentially the same conditions for both experiences: privacy and safety.

Don't disrespect the sword marshmallow.

Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.

Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

There's no time for hatred, only questions. Where is love? Where is happiness? What is life? Where is peace?

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.

It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!

If you want to get somewhere in this life, learn to draw beautiful women.

What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

We are, always, reminded of the old saw: What would happen if the Soviet Union took over the Sahara Desert? Answer: Nothing for 50 years. After that there would be a shortage of sand.

Your soul can fly outward, stringed to your ribcage like a shimmering kite in the shape of an open hand. Be still and listen to the evidence of your own holiness.

Be the best. No negativity. No weakness. No acquiescence to fear or disaster. No errors of ignorance. No evasion to reality

Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies: knock me your lobes.

A society is not 'free' merely because the freedoms the people are doing away with are those they voted at the last election to do without.

We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.

Sensitivity isn't about being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom

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.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

Animals shouldn't eat gumdrops! They shouldn't drink tea or chocolate milk, either.

She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever.

People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.

Not everything that is legal is reputable.

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

Time to write and sing, to laugh, to listen, to discover, to cry, to love music.

Love heals all wounds and not just time alone.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

If you do anything regularly for a while, sooner or later the weirdoes will show up.

I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.

Before there was Ronald Reagan there was Barry Goldwater, and before there was Barry, there was National Review , and before there was National Review there was Bill Buckley with a spark in his mind.

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

You know, I’ve spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.

The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.

Fight despite the crowds of the walking dead

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.

Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.

History is but the polemics of the victor.

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.

Kiss me, please kiss me But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.