Craig Charles Quotes
Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
Quotes to Explore
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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We have to be tough. It's time we're going to be a little bit tough, folks. We're taken advantage by every nation in the world, virtually. It's not going to happen any more.
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...I simply don’t want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.
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Everybody likes pizza! It's a quick and easy clean-up meal.
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I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.
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When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
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Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
