All Quotes

Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well.
‐‐ Dave Haywood

Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.
‐‐ Dominique Wilkins

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear.
‐‐ Shannon Miller

Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff.
‐‐ Tim Duncan

Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'
‐‐ Lance Henriksen

Charles Blow's memoir 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones' was a breathtaking piece of writing.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

Charles Darwin and I and you broke off from the family tree from chimpanzees about five million years ago. They're still our closest genetic kin. We share 98.8 percent of the genes. We share more genes with them than zebras do with horses. And we're also their closest cousin. They have more genetic relation to us than to gorillas.
‐‐ Colin Camerer

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him.
‐‐ Emmitt Smith

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

Charles James was a dear friend of mine when I was a little boy - 17, 18. He was mad as a hatter. I had no idea how famous he was.
‐‐ Rene Ricard

Charles Kiss is a legendary James Bond-style British spy. And McGrath is the young idealist who is given the task of following in his footsteps. It's a mission that forces McGrath to question everything he thought he believed in.
‐‐ Peter Milligan

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me.
‐‐ Maureen O'Hara

Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio.
‐‐ Brian Cox

Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Charles Miller cannot bring down my government.
‐‐ Denzil Douglas

Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio.
‐‐ Millicent Martin

Charles Saatchi has never liked my work at all.
‐‐ Jean-Michel Basquiat

Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it's a work of genius. It's very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don't expect in a silly-looking comic strip.
‐‐ Matt Groening

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 franchise.
‐‐ Don Yaeger

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
‐‐ Anthony Holden

Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.
‐‐ Thomas Gibson

Charleston is an amazing place. I probably didn't appreciate it enough when I was growing up.
‐‐ Thomas Gibson

Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

Charleston, South Carolina, is about a 90-minute drive northwest of Beaufort and Parris Island. It is an old city reborn with new charm and an influx of snowbirds from the North attracted by its ease, comfort and accessibility.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle

Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.
‐‐ Elizabeth Debicki

Charlie and I discovered at a really young at that we had a passion for figure skating, and I think that passion drives us to work every day to improve and grow. We have really learned to love our sport more and more, year to year. And the hard work really pays off.
‐‐ Meryl Davis

Charlie and I were never blessed with children.
‐‐ Marge Schott

Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure.
‐‐ Brian Walker

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
‐‐ Chris Rock

Charlie Brown's good. I always had a little crush on that Lucy. I thought she was kind of a hot little brunette.
‐‐ Matthew Lillard

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
‐‐ Vida Blue

'Charlie Hebdo' had been nondenominational in its satire, sticking its finger into the sensitivities of Jews and Christians, too - but only Muslims responded with threats and acts of terrorism.
‐‐ George Packer

Charlie Parker and Art Tatum to me were genius, and I'm right below that. I did, in my own way, do something different on the instrument, and that's the way I'd like to be remembered.
‐‐ Buddy DeFranco

Charlie Parker is my greatest inspiration as a saxophone player - anything that involves him entails a large amount of respect.
‐‐ Miguel Zenon

Charlie Parker was a genius, as was Lester Young.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.
‐‐ Tim Cahill

Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.
‐‐ Jay Chiat

Charlie's not your conventional mathematician... we sexed him up a little bit.
‐‐ David Krumholtz

Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
‐‐ Dakota Fanning

Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?
‐‐ Neil Patrick Harris

Charlie would be so proud of what these young people are accomplishing today and, in true Charlie fashion, would encourage them to walk to the very edge of their comfort zone and then take another step.
‐‐ Lynn Schusterman

Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she looks so good because she has the best body or because she has the confidence to feel comfortable in what she's wearing.
‐‐ Alexandra Daddario

Charlotte is a very interesting place - I'm Canadian, but I've lived in Toronto, Vancouver, and I've been living here in L.A. for years.
‐‐ Diego Klattenhoff

'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.
‐‐ Meg Wolitzer