Charles Schwab (Charles Robert Schwab) Quotes
On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Quotes to Explore
-
Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
-
I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
-
The brain abhors discrepancies.
-
The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
-
People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
-
I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
-
I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
-
My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
-
As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
-
I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
-
I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
-
All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
-
If there really is a God, then he really looks after me.
-
Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
-
By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
-
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
-
Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
-
I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
-
Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks is that most so-called theory is only a collection of examples from master practice.
-
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
-
There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
-
With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
-
I was always curious. I always wondered why Tarzan is the King of the Jungle in Africa, he was white.
-
On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
