Charles Quotes

370 quotes by 297 authors

Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English… — Michael Swanwick
Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear. — Shannon Miller
I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried… — Boz Scaggs
I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those… — Charles Mingus
I am Charles Mingus, half black man, not even white enough to pass for nothing but black. I am Charles Mingus, a famed jazzman, but… — Charles Mingus
This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed. — Harry Frank Guggenheim
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on… — John Gierach
The sight of a paunchy playboy groping a scantily-dressed Diana must appal and humiliate Prince William... As the mother of two young sons she ought… — Lynda Lee-Potter
When Ray Charles is concentrating he's like a piece of granite, nothing twitches, nothing, ... He sat for 25 minutes solid like that, like a… — Taylor Hackford
Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called… — Jan Morris
Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling. — Des Hanafin
The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you… — Charles Lamb
"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effect on… — Charles Bernhard Heyd
"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked… — Walter Scott
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall. — Warren Moon
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human… — Charles Edison
There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for… — Robert Wyatt
I wish that Prince Charles had been shot. I think it would have made the world a more interesting place. — Steven Morrissey
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. — Simon Schama
The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed… — Simon Schama

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