Top 100 Charlton's Quotes
#1. [Wayne Rooney] has to be viewed as a great England striker if he breaks Sir Bobby Charlton's record. Scoring goals at international level is much more difficult than it was a few years back because even the lesser teams are well organised and don't concede too many goals these days.
Michael Owen
#2. I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself.
Charlton Heston
#3. We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.
Jack Charlton
#4. And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.
Charlton Heston
#5. I've used too many pistols in too many movies. They're kind of heavy to carry ...
Charlton Heston
#6. In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.
Charlton Heston
#7. So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men
Charlton Heston
#9. You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don't. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.
Charlton Heston
#10. I have no hesitation in putting a name to the embodiment of all that I think is best about football. It's Paul Scholes. In so many ways Scholes is my favourite.
Bobby Charlton
#11. What is current in the media is definitive. Sin can be made into virtue, virtue into sin; propaganda can be made into truth, truth into propaganda; beauty can be reframed as Kitsch and ugliness celebrated as beauty.
Bruce G. Charlton
#12. Hollywood
that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.
Shirley Knight
#14. You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
Charlton Heston
#15. I remember how inspiring it was to meet players like Bobby Charlton or Bryan Robson when I was a kid. I still remember Clive Allen showing up when I received a trophy for my Sunday league team.
David Beckham
#16. Magistra, if you save my student, I don't care a snap what you say about my heart.
She snorted. Typical of a man, caring only when an external organ is belittled.
Blake Charlton
#17. That which is original creates a new origin. That which is original, by definition, must stray off the previously worn paths. It must wander; it must err.
Blake Charlton
#19. I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals.
Charlton Heston
#20. I didn't change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.
Charlton Heston
#21. English, as Charlton Laird has noted, is the only language that has, or needs, books of synonyms like Roget's Thesaurus. "Most speakers of other languages are not aware that such books exist" [The Miracle of Language, page 54].
Bill Bryson
#22. Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.
Charlton Heston
#23. Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
Charlton Laird
#24. Telling us what to think has evolved into telling us what to say, so telling us what to do can't be far behind.
Charlton Heston
#25. Everyone teaches you something. Some teach you what to do, and others teach you what not to do.
Hilda Charlton
#26. So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.
Craig Johnston
#27. It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.
Charlton Heston
#28. In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and considers Australia's future as the Chinese dragon stirs and shifts.
Andrew Charlton
#29. I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.
Charlton Heston
#30. Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate from the will of a ruler, to choose whether a man should live by grace of law, or law by grace of man. In a literal sense Moses lives at every council table today.
Charlton Heston
#31. Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.
Bobby Charlton
#32. Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.
Liz Smith
#33. I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.
Charlton Heston
#34. Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.
Charlton Laird
#35. Soccer is a man's game, not an outing for mamby-pambies.
Jack Charlton
#36. Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague's words: "The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.
Andrew Charlton
#37. What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears. I warn you, man's ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious or violent.
Charlton Heston
#38. As is well know, I, ah..regard myself as a religious man, yet I belong to no church. I'm an able soldier yet I abhor armies. I can even add that I've been introduced to hundreds of women but never married. In other words no one's ever talked me into anything.
Charlton Heston
#40. The physical mechanics of sex are pretty funny unless you are engaged in them. Then they are, of course, marvelous.
Charlton Heston
#41. Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.
Charlton Heston
#42. Men like you should be left to the mercy of women like me.
Sam J. Charlton
#43. Maybe it's good if God gives you something to think about every so often.
Charlton Heston
#44. I actually don't feel the years passing, although the younger players make sure to remind me of my age. If there's a clip of Bobby Charlton playing or a game's in black and white they'll ask: Were you playing in that Giggsy?
Ryan Giggs
#45. It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin
every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands ...
Charlton Heston
#47. To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!
Charlton Heston
#48. I've seen them on television on a Sunday morning most days of the week.
Jack Charlton
#49. In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.
Charlton Heston
#50. The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.
Charlton Heston
#51. I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.
Charlton Heston
#52. It was a game we should have won. We lost it because we thought we were going to win it. But then again, I thought that there was no way we were going to get a result there.
Jack Charlton
#53. If you want to make amends for the life you have led then start now.
Sam J. Charlton
#54. That was the way with folk; full of sympathy for the plight of others until something was asked of them.
Sam J. Charlton
#55. The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
Charlton Heston
#57. There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys.
Charlton Heston
#58. Tottenham have impressed me. They haven't thrown in the towel even though they have been under the gun.
Bobby Charlton
#59. The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.
Charlton Heston
#60. Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'
Charlton Heston
#61. He's a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don't believe it.
Mark Wahlberg
#63. One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.
Charlton Heston
#64. Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.
Jack Charlton
#65. Inside the myth of Australia's economic superheroes."
We're living through the second longest boom in Australian history. You can't move for talk of the budget surplus.
Andrew Charlton
#66. My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.
Richard Gough
#67. You spoke to Nicodemus?' Vivian asked.
[Francesca] 'We did.'
V: 'And he trusts you?'
F: 'As much as one might after a first impression involving hatchets.
Blake Charlton
#68. Circumstances are seldom right. You never have the capacities, the strength, the wisdom, the virtue you ought to have. You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen.
Charlton Ogburn
#69. You have to be very careful to view yourself with a somewhat skeptical eye and to remember that you're not here taking down everything I'm saying because you think I'm such a marvelous fellow but because your editors say go get 1,200 words or whatever on Chuck Heston.
Charlton Heston
#70. I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.
George Clooney
#71. I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today.
Charlton Heston
#72. In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
Bobby Charlton
#74. Moses, who said to the Israelites, Stop calling me Charlton! Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#75. As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.
Charlton Heston
#76. If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you a sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don't celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.
Charlton Heston
#77. Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
Charlton Heston
#78. I'm always suspicious of games where you're the only ones that play it.
Jack Charlton
#80. I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.
Charlton Heston
#81. They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.
Bryan Robson
#82. Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.
Charlton Heston
#83. Duncan Edwards is the one person who, even today, I really felt inferior to. I've never know anybody so gifted and strong and powerful with the presence that he had.
Bobby Charlton
#84. Down they went, into the darkness. Down ancient, worn steps coated in slippery mildew. Down into the deep recesses of the earth, far beneath the corridors of Deep-Spire.
Sam J. Charlton
#85. My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting.
Charlton Heston
#86. We now reflexly, and dishonestly, unmask all virtue as hypocritical, all beauty as Kitsch; and have become so jaded with simplicity and wholesomeness that we find Good insipid and crave the sharp stimulus of sin.
Bruce G. Charlton
#87. When PC subverts The Good and instead promotes Vice, Lies, and Ugliness this is self-perceived as merely humble experiments in pursuit of the Better.
Bruce G. Charlton
#88. My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.
Charlton Heston
#89. The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in ... I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.
Charlton Heston
#90. I love watching little Paul Scholes, he's so in control of what he's doing and is always so accurate and pinpoint with his passing - it's just beautiful to watch.
Bobby Charlton
#91. Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.
Charlton Laird
#92. Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.
Charlton Ogburn
#93. I've been a public person for most of my life. It has advantages and disadvantages. I can't take my kids to Disneyland. On the other hand, I can get a table at a restaurant or tickets to a play.
Charlton Heston
#94. You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Charlton Heston
#95. The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.
Charlton Heston
#96. Paul Scholes is my favourite player. He epitomises the spirit of Manchester United and everything that is good about football.
Bobby Charlton
#97. Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies know where they come from.
Charlton Laird
#98. Skijoring is just something that people want to see, it's like Ben Hur on snow, the modern way. I love the speed, the adrenalin rush is something special. It's just unique.
Charlton Heston
#99. We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way.
Charlton Heston
#100. Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be ... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.
Charlton Heston
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