Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes

Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

Charles Baxter

• Mean
• Quality
• Strive
• Spread
• Ease
• Willpower

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• Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Company
  • Year
  • Retail

• If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Respect

• Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • School
  • System
  • U.K.

• If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Work
  • Job
  • Father

• I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.'

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Today
  • Girl
  • Gun

• Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Turn

• It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Giving
  • Woman
  • Stand

• I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Feel
  • Need
  • Jewish

• I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Good
  • Fun
  • I Can

• Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Only

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06

  

  Oswald Spengler

• It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Crazy
  • Doubt

• I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Art
  • Fashion

• At the end of the day, you entertain for few hours, but people remember a good human being for a longer time.

  

  Karan Patel
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Up
  • Earth

• We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.

  

  Maureen Reagan
  • Family
  • Political

• We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.

  

  Peter Bondra
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.

  

  Marcia Wallace
  • People
  • Together
  • Deep

• One of my biggest Achilles’ heels has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, the very person, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.

  

  Kanye West
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Ego

• 'Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.'

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Art
  • Success

• Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Persons
  • Superhuman
  • Monstrosity

• Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Mean
  • Quality
  • Strive