#charles

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. ↗

— Van Morrison

#charles #first #imagination #live #music

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy. ↗

— Andrew Morton

#britain #cabinet #charles #during #europe

Charles Laughton signed me to my first movie contract at 17. He later asked my parents if he could adopt me. ↗

— Maureen O'Hara

#asked #charles #contract #could #first

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston. ↗

— Anne Rivers Siddons

#big city #charleston #charming #cities #city

all theories like cliches shot to hell, all these small faces looking up beautiful and believing; I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but believe is a graveyard. we have narrowed it down to the butcherknife and the mockingbird wish us luck. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#fire #luck #poem #quote #beauty

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#great-expectations #change

Anna gave Charles a shy kiss on the cheek and strolled out of the room without a backward glance. Until she reached the doorway, and then, in full view of the curious who'd had the courage or discourtesy to linger in the auditorium after he'd dismissed them, she kissed her palm and blew it to him. And despite... or because of their audience, he caught it in one hand, and pulled the hand to his heart. Her smile dropped away, and the expression in her eyes would feed him for a week. And the expressions on the faces of the wolves who knew Charles, or knew his reputation, would make him laugh as soon as no one was watching. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#charles-cornick #humor #courage

In every day and in every way, we're all that much closer to death. ↗

— Charles Atkins

#humor #sarcastic #death

Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio. ↗

— Millicent Martin

#charles #i #like #little #pierce

There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make. This was well known among his children. In 1855, when Lenny was about five, Charles walked in to find his son jumping up and down and tumbling all over a new sofa. 'Oh Lenny, Lenny,' Charles said. 'You know it is against all rules.' 'Then,' Lenny said to his papa, 'I think you'd better go out of the room.' And so Charles did. ↗

— Heiligman Deborah

#children #family-rules #humor #family