Charmless Quotes

#1. Not being sure of things, he knew, was a charmless corner of purgatory reserved for writers who were driving fast with no idea at all where they were going.

Stephen King

#2. As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise
and inexplicably
to be envied.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#3. That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.

Mike Carey

#4. New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

Henry James

#5. Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

Germaine Greer

#6. Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Honore De Balzac

#7. Success is being happy first with yourself, and secondly with your life.

Carolynn Hillman

#8. Why couldn't he stop talking and let them drink his health?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.

Michael Ian Black

#10. If you love someone your heart will always remember them. Even if the mind doesn't, the heart never forgets.

Alexandra Potter

#11. Once again, Kirk Franklin takes the church beyond the traditional, transitioning his life's experiences into life lessons. Clearly there is more to this man than great music. You will feel the beat of his heart and faith.

T.D. Jakes

#12. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

Samuel Rush Meyrick

#13. Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Ambrose Bierce

#14. The runner's greatest asset, apart from essential fitness of body, is a cool and calculating brain allied to confidence and courage.

Franz Stampfl

#15. At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given me strength.

Viktor Yushchenko

#16. True religion is that which does not let you stumble.

Dada Bhagwan

#17. In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

J.M. Barrie