Charles Barkley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that area.
-
I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
-
The real war will never get in the books.
-
For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
-
My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
-
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
-
Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
-
Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
-
Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
-
I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
-
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
-
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
-
So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
-
If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.
-
I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
-
The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
-
Death is the beginning of something.
-
United States and our allied partners need to wake up. ISIS is at war with us and civilization.
-
I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.
-
I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
-
When asked, 'Does God help you?': 'He's not really in caucus lately.'
-
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.
-
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
-
Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
