Top 100 Charley Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Hello? I said, because Charley's House of Pasties seemed wrong.
Darynda Jones
#3. 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
#5. It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.
Allan Carr
#6. Mr. Garret," said Charley, "excuse me, but why does it matter to you what your sons think about religion?
Robert Conley
#7. If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.
Bob Dylan
#8. 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
#10. One lesson I've learned
worry doesn't change tomorrow, it only robs today of its joy.-Charley
Irene Hannon
#11. An education is everything, Charley. An education is how you'll make something of yourself.
Mitch Albom
#12. There was nothing like a trip to the gynecologist to make one feel just a little violated.
Charley
Darynda Jones
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Charley Bristow paced his small living room. Celibacy was burning a hole in his pants.
Dana Glossbrenner
#17. What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
Charley Pride
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Back when I was a kid, we had a saying, 'Unlucky at love, lucky at grand theft auto,'" Charley said.
Fred Willard
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Charley is a mind-reading dog. There have been many trips in his lifetime, and often he has to be left at home. He knows we are going long before the suitcase has come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria.
John Steinbeck
#24. He's a rum dog. Don't he look fierce at any strange cove that laughs or sings when he's in company!' pursued the Dodger. 'Won't he growl at all, when he hears a fiddle playing! And don't he hate other dogs as ain't of his breed! Oh, no!'
'He's an out-and-out Christian,' said Charley.
Charles Dickens
#25. Uncle Bob - "
"I could order you to."
"Well, you'd best be ordering your coffin at the same time."
"I mean it, Charley."
"I suggest a nice mahogany.
Darynda Jones
#26. Cookie&Charley Coffee moments:
"You did your dishes with shampoo?"
"It was either that or my apricot body scrub."
"No, good call. A little shampoo won't hurt you.
Darynda Jones
#27. So I did indeed set out, as John Steinbeck says in his gavels with Charley, "not to instruct others but to inform myself.
Dennis Bray
#28. Are you God?" Kory asked, his voice soft.
"Um, no, but I appreciate the compliment. I'm Charley.
Darynda Jones
#29. Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him.
Willy: Then what have I got to remember?
Arthur Miller
#30. If the radical right had its way we'd all be church-going polyester heterosexuals driving around in white Cadillacs eating meatloaf and wax beans while mammoth bulldozers leveled all our forests and even hummingbirds were extinct.
Charley, The Voice of the Butterfly
John Nichols
#31. Sitka Charley started. There had been more than one shot, yet there was but one other rifle in the party. He gave a fleeting glance at the men who lay so quietly, smiled viciously at the wisdom of the trail, and hurried on to meet the Men of the Yukon.
Jack London
#32. Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
Mitch Albom
#33. I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.
Charley Pride
#34. Sometimes I crave pickles. Other times I crave the blood of my enemy. Weird. - CHARLEY DAVIDSON
Darynda Jones
#35. Charley Davidson, Private Investigator, Because No One Is Better At Investigating Your Privates
Darynda Jones
#36. Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her favorite city on fire.
Kelly Link
#37. Honestly, he acted as though he didn't like me anymore. Wait, maybe he didn't. "Do you still like me?"
"I never liked you."
Oh, right. He had a point.
Garreth & Charley
Darynda Jones
#38. You need to listen to what Mom has to say." "No, I don't." "She deserves that much, Charley.
Darynda Jones
#39. Nobody named Cheerful Charley is tuned in on my wavelength
Philip K. Dick
#40. Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.
John Steinbeck
#41. I have depth. I've read Proust. No, wait, that was Pooh. Winnie the Pooh. My bad
Charley Davidson.
Darynda Jones
#42. I knew what Charley would do. He would spend the evening drinking himself into the mindset of a cinder block. If they had given him as much as a hundred bucks, it would be a long night.
Dan Ahearn
#43. Have you slept yet?'
'Sure. I took a power nap on the way over.'
'Didn't you drive there?'
'Yeah. Other drviers kept waking me up. Car horns should be illegal.'
- Charley & Cookie
Darynda Jones
#44. I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.
Loretta Lynn
#45. One day, I'm going to get to the bottom of you, Charley Davidson."
I had no idea she was into anal.
Darynda Jones
#46. I was more than willing to put aside the Charley Davidson Book of Etiquette and Mud Wrestling if it resulted in earth-shattering orgasms.
Darynda Jones
#47. If Checker Charley was out to make chumps out of men, he could damn well fix his own connections. Paul looks after his own circuits; let Charley do the same. Those who live by electronics, die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis." He gathered up the bills from the table. "Good night.
Kurt Vonnegut
#49. Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks VapoRub for the national charley horse, it's clear that his hands were reaching for any hands but mine.
Natalie Angier
#50. What if I lose you?" "You can't lose your mother, Charley.
Mitch Albom
#51. Hurricane Charley is the worst natural disaster to befall our state in a dozen years, and it is unthinkable that anyone would try to take advantage of neighbors at a time like this,.
Charlie Crist
#52. I had yet to be a mother, but I would have thought it difficult to forget something it took thirty-seven hours of excruciating pain to push out from between my legs ~Charley Davidson
Darynda Jones
#53. Charley's "FOR THE LOVE OF":
"Oh,FOR THE LOVE OF gravy"
"Just be honest with me, FOR THE LOVE OF applesauce, Gemma."
"But FOR THE LOVE OF marinara, I typed, don't shoot anyone.
Darynda Jones
#54. Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her ... It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day.
Darynda Jones
#55. Charley wondered how it happened that men of the cloth always seemed to misunderstand the ways of the Lord. If you wanted protection you had to ask for money or love, and He would give you protection instead. Prayer was a study in misdirection...
Pete Dexter
#56. Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
Abraham Polonsky
#57. Sometimes, i think the sea nearly killed her, loved her so much that it didn't want to give her back. Other times i just hate Charley for ever existing in the first place.
Sharon Dogar
#58. There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.
Charley Pride
#59. My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up.
- Charley Davidson
Darynda Jones
#60. Denton struck Charley as the kind of man who never wasted energy on extra movement or idle chitchat. He was foursquare Sonny Boy Williamson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Silvertone guitar, older than old school.
Natalie Baszile
#61. Dayum! You know Charley's pissed when the f-bomb is flying out her mouth like it's her job to drop them.
Jacquelyn Ayres
#62. Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#63. Surprisin' a li'l ol' five foot tumble would kill a healthy feller like Charley," opined Barstow.
"Well, Jim Ed, we have to remember that that hemp neckerchief he was a-wearin' at the time, had ten, twelve inches, maybe less, slack than that to it.
D.V. Pyle
#64. Secrets, Charley," my mother whispered. "They'll tear you apart.
Mitch Albom
#65. For directly afterwards, the Dodger, and Charley, and the two young ladies, went away together, having been kindly furnished by the amiable old Jew with money to spend.
Charles Dickens
#66. I think I met your friend Charley."
"You ... did? When?"
"When I looked in the mirror this morning."
She stood in disbelief for a moment. Then astonishment. Then doubt. Then hope. Then wariness. Aka, the five stages of Cookie.
Darynda Jones
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
Charley Lau
#71. 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
#72. I was freaking her out, but someone had to do it, damn it
Darynda Jones
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Suddenly I'm that chick from Fatal Attraction. Next thing you know, I'll be boiling rabbits.
Darynda Jones
#76. 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
#77. Angel, who found a flower blooming in hell and died for it ...
Pat Mills
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. My plans often went awry. Much like my thoughts. Hold the phones. Maybe Saan had ADD, too. It would explain a lot.
Darynda Jones
#81. Cookie saw him, too. "Holy mother of all things sexy," she said, her eyes drinking him in.
"Right there with ya.
Darynda Jones
#82. Nobody should hit .200. Anybody should hit .250.
Charley Lau
#83. It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.
Charley Reese
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.
Charley Pride
#89. you should always be doing something that satisfies you, what makes you feel good inside.
Charley Harper
#90. After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job.
Charley Pride
#91. Mother was a talkative person, and I was a lot like her.
Charley Pride
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.
Charley Pride
#96. 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
#97. I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
Charley Pride
#98. Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.
Charley Reese
#99. 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
#100. 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
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