Alpha and omega Quote by Patricia Briggs

I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think…

— Anthony Holden

“Charles's conversation was commonplace as a street pavement, and everyone's ideas trooped through it in their everyday garb, without exciting emotion, laughter, or thought.…

— Gustave Flaubert

There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess.…

— Charles Caleb Colton

On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.”

— Patricia Briggs

Martin [Luther King] wasn't, basically, the kind of person - certainly at the stage that I knew him closest - wasn't the kind of…

— Ella Baker

Of course, I still saw Edward at school, because there wasn't anything Charlie [her dad] could do about that. And then, Edward spent almost…

— Stephenie Meyer

Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of…

— Maya Angelou

Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him…

— Félix J. Palma

Charlie is a very functional guy. He always nailed his takes, often in less time than everybody else. He was prepared, and a very…

— Jon Cryer

He was the meekest of his sex, the mildest of little men. He sidled in and out of a room, to take up the…

— Charles Dickens