Charles Quotes

370 quotes by 283 authors

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old. — Joe Cocker
I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're… — Charles Dance
I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and… — Eric Dickerson
Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a… — Andrew Gross
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh,… — Douglas Brinkley
Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens. — The Notorious B.I.G.
King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them. — Antonia Fraser
He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing… — Thomas B. Macaulay
All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson. — Leonard Cohen
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in… — Francis Galton
Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles. — Taylor Hackford
Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice. — Taylor Hackford
I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and… — Janis Ian
When I was a kid, I had some Charles Lloyd records. — David Johansen
In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I believe or challenge… — Michael L. Brown
I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox. — Tom Waits
Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton… — Marilyn Manson
From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes. — Marilyn Manson
I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot… — Black Francis

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