Charles Best Quotes
I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.
Quotes to Explore
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Being evil is easy.
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.
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I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.
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We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
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I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
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The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.
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The power efficiency of computing has improved by a factor of a billion from the ENIAC computer of the 1950s to today's handheld devices. Fundamental physics indicates that it should be possible to compute even another billion times more efficiently. That would put the power of all of today's present computers in the palm of your hand. That says to me that the age of computing really hasn't even begun yet.
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This is loving your neighbour as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it.
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There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
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Behind every communication problem is a sweaty ten-minute conversation that you don't want to have.
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I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.
