Charles Barkley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
-
My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
-
I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
-
I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
-
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
-
It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
-
The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
-
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
-
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
-
Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
-
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
-
I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
-
It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
-
My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
-
I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.
-
There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
-
The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.
-
I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
-
Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
-
Sequels are generally done in a rush. They're done with a sense of urgency. The first time, you spend a long time developing to get it over the line. The second time, you don't. Your expectations are different, and your motivations are different.
-
In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.
-
If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.
-
Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.
-
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
