Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
Charles Baxter
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Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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I've only been to jail once, and I didn't get my tattoos there.
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In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
Patricia MacLachlan
Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.
Isaac Barrow
The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.
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When I got home from hospital, and I was in a wheelchair in a plaster body cast, an aeroplane flew over. And I thought to myself, 'Well, if I can't walk, then I might as well fly.' And I was lifted into the aeroplane for the first time. And when I took the controls of the aeroplane, I knew this was something I could do. I thought, 'I can fly.'
Janine Shepherd
If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
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Everyone in the music industry is so fun and laid-back.
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I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.
Donald E. Westlake
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.
Lysander Spooner
I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.
Fred Melamed
I think, to many people in the company, I am somewhat of an outsider.
John L. Flannery
I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with... even if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's only fashion.
Anja Rubik
The word 'racist' is a permanent stain against my name. It's worse than a criminal record. Some people will never forgive me. Others will accept I made a terrible mistake and recognise I have learnt from it. It's on YouTube when my kids type in their dad's name, and it comes up 'Jamie Vardy racist'. On Google, too. It's horrible.
Jamie Vardy
I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.
William E. Gladstone
There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
Charles Baxter
