H.W. Charles Quotes

One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.

Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.

There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.

I sing what I sing true. Each night I sing it the way I feel that night.

I don't sing a song unless I feel it. The song don't tug at my heart, I pass on it. I have to believe in what I'm doing.

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

All my life I've always been so blue, born to lose, and now I'm losing you.

I set my own rhythm, and I do believe it was usually a little faster than most other people's.

I had to pawn my clothes just to pay my rent.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

When change itself can give no more, 'T is easy to be true.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

It will be your duty, and it will be your pleasure too to estimate her (as you chose her) by the qualities that she has, and not by the qualities she may not have.

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades.

But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.