Top 100 Charley Quotes

#1. They were back. The demons in all their glory. And they had a plan. I made plans sometimes, too, but they rarely involved world domination. Hot dogs on a grill, maybe. Tequila.

Darynda Jones

#2. How would you like your eggs?"
I tried. I really did. But I glanced at his crotch and it came out anyway. "Fertilized?

Darynda Jones

#3. A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

Charley Pride

#4. There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.

Charley Lau

#5. The regular I both feared and salivated to see was names Reyes Farrow. Where others exuded aggression, deception, and insecurity, he literally dripped confidence, sex, and power. Mostly sex.

Darynda Jones

#6. The circus is the perfect business right now because parents want their kids to be kids and not Charley Bucket drinking cabbage soup all day.

Jonathan Dunne

#7. I was freaking her out, but someone had to do it, damn it

Darynda Jones

#8. Hello? I said, because Charley's House of Pasties seemed wrong.

Darynda Jones

#9. I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

Charley Pride

#10. There's no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one's liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars.

Charley Reese

#11. Suddenly I'm that chick from Fatal Attraction. Next thing you know, I'll be boiling rabbits.

Darynda Jones

#12. And who came up with the animals for these euphemisms, anyway? Why bat shit? Why not cow shit or grasshopper shit? And why don't we give a rat's ass as opposed to a hamster's ass?

Darynda Jones

#13. That's the thing with Holy Moses: big as a house and scary as heck if you don't know him, but Charley Manson and his whole family could come parading through here and he'd give them you room key for a slice of sharp cheddar.
Ms. Fisher, The Last Stop

Kirt J. Boyd

#14. Angel, who found a flower blooming in hell and died for it ...

Pat Mills

#15. What do you want?"
"You," he said, his voice lowering an octave. "I want you, Dutch, body and soul. I want you in my bed every night. I want you there when I wake up in the morning. I want your clothes strung across my apartment and your scent on my skin.

Darynda Jones

#16. A nation dies culturally and spiritually first. Its money and its army are the last to go, but go they do once the light goes out in the nation's soul.

Charley Reese

#17. My plans often went awry. Much like my thoughts. Hold the phones. Maybe Saan had ADD, too. It would explain a lot.

Darynda Jones

#18. Cookie saw him, too. "Holy mother of all things sexy," she said, her eyes drinking him in.
"Right there with ya.

Darynda Jones

#19. Nobody should hit .200. Anybody should hit .250.

Charley Lau

#20. It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

Charley Reese

#21. I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience. I was so glad Reyes hadn't ripped him to shreds. I liked him much better un-shredded. Unlike, say, my preference for lettuce or heavy metal guitar solos.

Darynda Jones

#22. I'm like crack. People don't want to like me, but once they get a taste, they always come back for more.

Darynda Jones

#23. Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.

Charley Reese

#24. The new laws passed by Congress in the name of fighting terrorism pose a greater danger to the civil liberties of American citizens than to the operations of terrorists. Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Charley Reese

#25. I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.

Charley Pride

#26. you should always be doing something that satisfies you, what makes you feel good inside.

Charley Harper

#27. After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.

Charley Pride

#28. If it isn't Charley

Marcus Emerson

#29. It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.

Allan Carr

#30. Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.

Charley Pride

#31. Make sure the government treats others the same as you would want the government to treat you ... Once you consent to the government ignoring the Constitution, you deny yourself the protection of the Constitution.

Charley Reese

#32. Surely my macking on some guy in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt him. He'd been living with his stalker, for heaven's sake.

Darynda Jones

#33. For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

Charley Pride

#34. Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

Charley Pride

#35. The rush of adrenaline helped. Not a lot. I still needed a caffeine fix, but at least I was awake enough to realize I quite possibly had my underwear on inside out. Something didn't feel right down yonder.

Darynda Jones

#36. I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

Charley Pride

#37. Mr. Garret," said Charley, "excuse me, but why does it matter to you what your sons think about religion?

Robert Conley

#38. Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

Charley Reese

#39. The dead guy looked at me with wide eyes. "I can't move my legs."
I snorted. "You can't move your arms either, or your feet or your freaking eyelids. You're dead.

Darynda Jones

#40. Gemma was so determined for me to deal with my PTSD, but I thought I was doing pretty well with it. We were friends now. I had my incontinence under control

Darynda Jones

#41. I'd tried to be washed of my sin once, but I ran out of Dial. Tricky business, that.

Darynda Jones

#42. Okay but he has a case for you," she said again, her voice singsong.
"Don't care."
"It's right up your alley. There's been a rash of suicide notes."
"That's not right up my alley. That's, like, two blocks over from my alley.

Darynda Jones

#43. I don't know. You just seem different now. Distant. Like you have PTSD.
I knew from where I spoke. My TSD got P'd when I was tortured by a monster named Earl.

Darynda Jones

#44. There's another part, an obstinate part, that wants more. That wants Dutch live and in the flesh. That wants her hand. Her mouth. Her hips under mine. It wants all of her. Every last ounce. Body and soul.

Darynda Jones

#45. I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

Charley Pride

#46. I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.

Charley Reese

#47. If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

Bob Dylan

#48. Carson," she said when she picked up. I liked it. Clear. Concise. To the point.
I decided to try it myself. "Davidson."
A loud sigh filtered to me. "Charley, you called me. You can't just say Davidson."
"What are you, the phone greeting police?

Darynda Jones

#49. He's an enigma wrapped up in sensuality padlocked with a dozen chains of desire and topped off with a razor-sharp ribbon of danger. There are more layers to him than a billionaire's wedding cake.

Darynda Jones

#50. Any said by "Charley Davidson" is my favorite!

Darynda Jones

#51. One lesson I've learned
worry doesn't change tomorrow, it only robs today of its joy.-Charley

Irene Hannon

#52. A flock of flirting flamingos is pure, passionate, pink pandemonium-a frenetic flamingle-mangle-a discordant discotheque of delirious dancing, flamboyant feathers, and flamingo lingo.

Charley Harper

#53. I realize I was more of a curiosity to the older Nashville artists than the new ones.

Charley Pride

#54. A wicked grin crinkled one corner of his mouth as he secured another sticky note on the door before shutting it in my face.
I blinked, then read the note.
Use the key.

Darynda Jones

#55. The dreams continue for over a month. Each reveals a new facet of her personality. One night, she is wild and unpredictable. The next, she is shy or giggly or coy. She laughs and growls and bites and sucks.

Darynda Jones

#56. My real mom died when I was born - hemorrhaged to death while giving birth to
me, which has never been one of my favorite memories - and Dad married Denise before I'd turned a year. Without even asking my opinion on the
matter. Denise and I never really clicked.

Darynda Jones

#57. Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

Charley Pride

#58. I called my friend Pari on the way home. "I need you to do my apt."
"I'm not that attracted to your apt."
"I think I'm being bugged."
"Like I am? Right now?

Darynda Jones

#59. Old soldiers never die - they're just thrown on the scrap heap!

Pat Mills

#60. An education is everything, Charley. An education is how you'll make something of yourself.

Mitch Albom

#61. I didn't realize until I locked the door to my apartment and leaned against it, panting that my cheeks were covered in frozen tears. I was such an idiot. And my heart hurt. Bad. Every beat sent an ache rocketing through my body. I was having a heart attack. Or, more likely, my heart had just broken.

Darynda Jones

#62. There was nothing like a trip to the gynecologist to make one feel just a little violated.
Charley

Darynda Jones

#63. Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on their travels, and we kept in touch.

Kelly Jones

#64. Wait." I looked around. "How did you get here?"
"I ran."
I reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. Scrolling through his menu, I said, "You called a cab."
"But I ran to the cab when it got to the cemetery.

Darynda Jones

#65. Charley thought of her father. He'd always told her she should never make assumptions about other people's time or their money, and that's the way she tried to live.

Natalie Baszile

#66. Okay, I'll strip. I'll tap dance. I'll sing 'La Cucaracha' in C minor.

Darynda Jones

#67. Oh, yeah, this girl was going down. She had no idea who she was messing with. And, sadly, she didn't seem to care.
I hoped her drawer came up short at the end of her shift. Karma's a bitch.

Darynda Jones

#68. If you believe in the right to life, then you must believe in the right to have the means to defend that life.

Charley Reese

#69. No one church has all the answers or the perfect map to the Promised Land, and I prefer to work out my own faith and my own convictions in the seclusion of my own mind.

Charley Pride

#70. On Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Sylvia's Lovers'.
'Philip Hepuburn worships Sylvia Robson, and finds dishonour' Sylvia Robson worships Charley Kinraid, and finds disillusionment. Charley Kinraid worships himself, and finds a career in the Royal Navy and an heiress who agrees with him.

Lucinda Elliot

#71. I won't ever stop loving you," I promised him.
"Good," Jake replied, and upon hearing how hoarse his voice was with emotion, I felt tears prick my eyes.
"I won't ever stop loving you. No matter what.

Samantha Young

#72. Charley Bristow paced his small living room. Celibacy was burning a hole in his pants.

Dana Glossbrenner

#73. What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.

Charley Pride

#74. A split second later, my life flashed before my eyes, and I came to one important conclusion about it.
It was fun while it lasted.

Darynda Jones

#75. Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music moguls felt they had to appeal to the same young audience and do it the way MTV did.

Charley Pride

#76. What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

Charley Pride

#77. It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

Charley Pride

#78. Gemma," I said, adding a singsong whine to my voice, "now I can't scare her. You can't go around telling people about me.

Darynda Jones

#79. I could hardly be responsible for my actions when everyone around me gave me every opportunity to sink to their low expectations.

Darynda Jones

#80. Why can't we have one of those quick pregnancies like Bella and Edward? Gwen from Torchwood. Scully. Deanna Troi. Or even Cordelia when that demon impregnated her. Twenty-four hours later bam! Demon child.

Darynda Jones

#81. When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.

Charley Pride

#82. There must be a special, less volcanic portion of hell that was partitioned off and set aside for people who weren't all bad, just a little vindictive. They could call it the drama queen ward. It would be a huge hit.

Darynda Jones

#83. As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

Charley Pride

#84. People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.

Charley Pride

#85. Where you just possessed?" Cookie asked after a long moment, awe softening her voice. "'Cause let me tell you, sweetheart, if that was possession, I'm selling my soul.

Darynda Jones

#86. I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled.
My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?"
"You know. Someone you forget."
From the other room came the squeals of children. Miss Thelma turned her chin to the sound. She smiled,"That's what keeps me from being forgotten.

Mitch Albom

#87. Rey'azikeen."
He'd offered me one last glance and winked a microsecond before he was gone.

Darynda Jones

#88. I could've knocked the shit out of her .She'd have good reason to roll her eyes then. But knocking the shit out of rude people wasn't my style. Heckling them every chance I got was.
Hopefully she'd screw up soon. I didn't have all day.

Darynda Jones

#89. Charley: If you're not going to tell
me where you are, if you're not going to trust me to help you, then why are you here? Why bother?
Reyes: Because you're the reason I breathe.

Darynda Jones

#90. He had given me so much information, I wanted some time to absorb it all, but I didn't want to leave him. Not like this. Not ever, as long as I lived. Or until I had to get back on the case. Whichever came first.

Darynda Jones

#91. Back when I was a kid, we had a saying, 'Unlucky at love, lucky at grand theft auto,'" Charley said.

Fred Willard

#92. Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

Kurt Vonnegut

#93. Washington, of course, aside from being one of the most mismanaged, crime-ridden cities on the planet, is a place where 535 federal legislators and about 38,000 lobbyists work at confiscating and redistributing the incomes of the American people.

Charley Reese

#94. A sheriff arrested me. I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure my men-in-uniform fetish began that day. The sheriff was hot. And he handcuffed me. I've never been the same.

Darynda Jones

#95. The funny thing about GPS was it didn't always send you in the right direction.
I knew that if I took a right and took Twelfth instead, I'd get there faster, so I turned right. Ozzy did not approve.
Wut the foock?

Darynda Jones

#96. Purpose of life give away to vision, vision creates dream, and dreams become reality.

Charley Sweeney

#97. Do you know how hard it is to diet with a name like Cookie?" "That's so weird." I stared off into space, marveling at the similarities of our situation. "It's hard to diet with a name like Charley, too

Darynda Jones

#98. It is worth noting that the people today who so vehemently wish to sweep religion from all public spaces and institutions are also the same people who consistently oppose freedom. They want only one God &emdash; the state, which of course they intend to run.

Charley Reese

#99. She blinked at me, then realized I was panicking. Honestly, it was like admitting to murder before being interrogated.
"Ms. Davidson," she began, but I decided to trip her up, to throw her off the trail of blood I'd left like an injured animal.
"I don't speak English.

Darynda Jones

#100. Well?" she asked when she picked up.
"Do you think we're really alone in the universe?"
"Were you abducted by aliens again?"
"No, thank goodness. Once was enough for me."
"Oh, whew. So, what happened with Reyes? Did you see him?"
"Saw him. Argued with him. Barfed.

Darynda Jones

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