Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes

At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.

Charles Baxter

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• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

  

  Ted Williams
  • God
  • You
  • Own

• Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • School
  • Wisdom

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • True
  • Society
  • Strong

• Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Jungle
  • Border
  • Colombia

• Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

  

  Aaron Hill
  • Thoughts
  • Consequences

• There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Money
  • Democracy
  • Politics

• I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Data

• I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Ignorance

• From caring comes courage.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Courage
  • Caring

• So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • House
  • Parents
  • Myself

• It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Influence
  • Writers
  • Reader

• When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Mother
  • City
  • Star

• For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Teenager
  • Racism
  • My Own

• I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Singing
  • Notes
  • Range

• For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Win
  • Place
  • First

• On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Question
  • Always
  • Information

• Lunch was my favorite part at school.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • School
  • Favorite
  • Lunch

• Endangered species are our friends.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Friends
  • Species
  • Endangered

• Next, he took a step further, and in the 12th year of his reign (9th April, 1669) he issued a general order “to demolish all the schools and temples of the infidels and to put down their religious teaching and practices.

  

  Aurangzeb
  • Religious
  • Teaching
  • Put Down

• Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Focus

• Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Never
  • Teach
  • Lectures

• Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Player

• At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or being kind, nothing at all, less than nothing.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Kind
  • Talent