Charles Quotes

370 quotes by 283 authors

I first became aware of Charles Darwin and evolution while still a schoolboy growing up in Chicago. My father and I had a passion for… — James D. Watson
We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a… — Robert Crumb
I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me. — Quincy Jones
I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the… — June Squibb
Charles Wang, owner of the New York Islanders, serves as something of a cautionary tale in terms of how heavy owner involvement can sink a… — Don Yaeger
Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler,… — P.J. O'Rourke
I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles. — Merry Clayton
I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy. — Jonathan Evison
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own… — Susan Holloway Scott
When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles. — Daryl Hall
Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed… — Hamish Bowles
I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall. — Robbie Robertson
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. — Robert Gottlieb
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical,… — Claire Tomalin
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected… — J. G. Ballard
Prince Charles is so funny. So, so funny. — Joan Rivers
I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much.… — Rick Gonzalez
I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for… — David Mazzucchelli
I love Charles Fuller. — Rutina Wesley

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