Charles Kuralt Quotes

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

Charles Kuralt

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• I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Time
  • Truth
  • New

• I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Beautiful
  • Enemy
  • Stone

• Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Relationships
  • Computers

• Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Home
  • Nice
  • Couple

• Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Cutting
  • Debate
  • Off

• The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Country
  • Wonderful
  • Royalty

• I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Know
  • Moon

• I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Earth

• The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Thinking
  • Working
  • Booked

• Being a bad guy is fun for me.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Guy

• Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • God
  • Live
  • Song

• In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Environment

• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • More

• I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • American
  • America

• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • One Word

• With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Ocean

• Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Important
  • Quality
  • Lie

• I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Good
  • Like
  • Steak

• The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world.

  

  James Buchan
  • World
  • God
  • Technology

• Anything that has to do with Disney and Pixar, I am on board with. That is where my heart and family are. So when they call, I jump.

  

  Jodi Benson
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Jump

• I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.

  

  Don McCullin
  • People
  • Life
  • War

• Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

  

  Jennifer Hale
  • Character

• I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

  

  Charles Kuralt