Charles Barkley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
-
One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.
-
There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
-
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
-
Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
-
I'm much more shy than most of my family.
-
Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
-
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
-
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.
-
Programmers can be lazy.
-
When you're learning, especially to write, unless you're some incredibly gifted writer, a young Malcom Gladwell, say, you need to be imitating people. You need to be imitating how they make their work, how they structure it, how they design the pieces. It gives you chops; it gives you moves.
-
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
-
There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
-
I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger's syndrome.
-
I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
-
The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.
-
I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.
-
I consider myself more exportant than important.
-
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
-
We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on these planes.
-
I personally don't do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I'd rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.
-
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
-
It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.
-
Anybody who is racist, I just I think they are an idiot.
