Charles Willeford Quotes

#1. Then, as horizons step,
Or noons report away,
Without the formula of sound,
It passes, and we stay:
A quality of loss
Affecting our content.

Emily Dickinson

#2. A man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance.

Charles Willeford

#3. The Filipino houseboy was conscious now

Charles Willeford

#4. I can't see any point to hanging around a Burger King all day, no matter how much money you make ... I'll tell you why. Your life would depend on the random desires of people who wanted a hamburger. So you can just forget about Burger King.

Charles Willeford

#5. He withhold that which I believe will fully nourish me? Why do I live in this sense of rejection, of less than, of pain? Does He not want me to be happy?

Ann Voskamp

#6. Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

Susan B. Anthony

#7. The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.

Carly Fiorina

#8. I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

Ewan McGregor

#9. he was an oddity of some magnitude.

Charles Willeford

#10. No whiskey, no religion, nothing.

Charles Willeford

#11. It started out as kind of a joke, and then it wasn't funny anymore because money became involved. Deep down, nothing about money is funny.

Charles Willeford

#12. My work is one long triumph over my limitations.

Charles Willeford

#13. Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor.

Charles Willeford

#14. The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Herbert Read

#15. Money is the root of all goodness. To talk disparagingly about money is the privilege of those who have money. There are also those people who state matter-of-factly that "money isn't everything". This statement is also true, but only so long as one has money.

Charles Willeford

#16. Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.

Victor Hugo

#17. So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.

Erykah Badu

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Victor Koo

#19. The man is well inside the train before the dreadful truth occurs to me. He is the man from the newspaper. The rapist. My doppelganger. My mirrored doppelganger.
William Wilson in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup.

Steen Langstrup

#20. I don't feel like I chose to do music as much as I made a decision to not stop doing music.

Jakob Dylan

#21. I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.

Charles Willeford

#22. Nothing human surprises me.

Charles Willeford

#23. Thinking, when you first try it, is very difficult.

Charles Willeford

#24. Outside of taking care of a man's needs, women don't get much pleasure out of life, anyways.

Charles Willeford

#25. By the end of a short walk, the septic tip of a cane probably collects enough germs to destroy a small city.

Charles Willeford