Willeford Quotes

#1. Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.

Donald E. Westlake

#2. 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

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

Charles Willeford

#4. The Filipino houseboy was conscious now

Charles Willeford

#5. I am very rich; my heart is full of kindness. I gave away so much love; I achieve greatness.

Debasish Mridha

#6. 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

#7. If Triple H asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Because I think that's good for business.

CM Punk

#8. Jesus wrecked my life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together more beautifully.

Katie J. Davis

#9. I'd like to go out knowing that I helped a few people along the way.

Alex Gaskarth

#10. he was an oddity of some magnitude.

Charles Willeford

#11. No whiskey, no religion, nothing.

Charles Willeford

#12. 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

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

Charles Willeford

#14. The night went on like this, a mix of serious talk, utter bullshit, self-promotion, and slumber-party giddiness.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Charles Willeford

#16. It is love itself that is important
the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

Pearl S. Buck

#17. Miracle of God will only happen if there is no other way around.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.

R. Kelly

#19. I'm going to die, he said aloud
and yawned. He felt no relief, no despair, no fear. The moment of his end would not grant him even the dignity of seriousness. It was an anonymous moment; a few minutes ago, he had held a toothbrush in that hand; now he held a gun with the same casual indifference.

Ayn Rand

#20. The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

Anne Rice

#21. More weapons hidden on his body than hallelujah-singing angels, dangling from a Christmas tree.

Aleksandr Voinov

#22. 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

#23. Nothing human surprises me.

Charles Willeford

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

Charles Willeford

#25. The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

Thomas Paine

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

Charles Willeford

#27. These people are headstrong and if they feel the curb loosed but one link they will with bit in the teeth in one month run further out of the career of good order than they will be brought back in three months.

Humphrey Gilbert

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

Charles Willeford

#29. fraction of a second, before asking,

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#30. The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

Charles Fillmore