Charles D'ambrosio Quotes

She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in. — Charles De Lint

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is. — Charles Dickens

It's hard to kill yourself by taking Tylenol. You die from liver failure, which takes a long time... — Charles D'Ambrosio

The waves lie on the beach; Your hair on your back of angel. (Les vagues s'allongent sur la plage; - Tes cheveux sur ton dos d'ange. ) — Charles De Leusse

I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong. — J. D. Souther

Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story. — Charles D'Ambrosio

If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung. — Charles Lamb

When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone? — Charles Lamb

Drawn by conceit from reason's plan
How vain is that poor creature man;
How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf
To grate about that thing himself. — Charles Churchill

We wake out of our dreams and wonder where the blood in our hands came from. — Charles D'Ambrosio

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade. — Charles Durning

I've never met another man I'd rather be. — Charles Bukowski

One may say there is a force like a hundred thousand wedges ... — Charles Darwin

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am. — Charles Yu

I never thought I'd miss Nancy Reagan. There can't be a rating [on the Clinton drug policy] when there hasn't been a performance. — Charles Rangel

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do! — Charles Stross

Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master. — Charles G.D. Roberts

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right. — Charles Evers

Listen Charles, if blondes were poison, I'd have died thirty years ago. — Jonathan Latimer

Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere? — Charles D'Ambrosio

Anna looked at Brother Wolf. 'I'd like to see someone try to put a radio control collar on Charles. It might be fun to watch on YouTube. — Patricia Briggs

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill

submarines in another. Soon a third — Charles D. Taylor

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay, LL. D. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much. — Charles Frazier

Before you go, you need to know - I'd do anything for you. Even kis you goodbye and watch you go. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

I'd rather go by bus. — Prince Charles

You're a very odd man," said Bert.
"I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles. — James A. Owen

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing. — Charles Stross

Are the accomplishments that people boast about real? Probably. But I'd rather hang out with real people, and real people don't have to boast. — Charles F. Glassman

I wonder if that's why it was so painful when we split up? Because we'd fallen so hard, so fast. I lost myself in him. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

Charles Fort was erected in 1667 by the Duke of Ormonde. It is said to be haunted by a ghost known as the "White Lady, — St John D. Seymour

I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. — Charles Stross

Winter's done, and April's in the skies,
Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes! — Charles G.D. Roberts

Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd
And wonder'd at the work herself had made. — Charles Churchill

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not. — Charles D. Broad

I am dying of thirst by the side of the fountain. — Charles D'Orleans

If I had my life to live over, I'd have spent more hours in worship. — Charles R. Swindoll

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing. — Charles D. Broad

If I had a brother in jail and one in Georgia, I'd try to bust the one out of Georgia first. — Charles Frazier

Charles, if you were here right now, I'd totally kiss you."
He chuckled softly. "I get that a lot, but I doubt my boyfriend will approve. — Laurel Cremant

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies. — Charles Ferguson

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself. — Charles De Gaulle

I'd rather someone be honest and tell me something that I didn't want to hear, rather than dishonest and tell me something I want to hear. — Charles F. Glassman

The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers) — Charles De Leusse

I'd say you're worth falling in love with twice. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend. — Charles Barkley

We are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions. — Charles D'Ambrosio

Grey rocks, and greyer sea,
And surf along the shore
And in my heart a name
My lips shall speak no more. — Charles G.D. Roberts

If I had it to do over, I'd vote for Obama without hesitation. I'm very thankful that McCain and Palin aren't in office. — Charles Foster Johnson

Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life. — Charles D'Ambrosio

Gladly I close this festive day, Grasping the altar's hallow'd horn; My slips and faults are washed away, The Lamb has all my trespass borne. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night. — Charles Portis

He'd write letters by the ream, if it was a capital offence! — Charles Dickens

If we waited until everyone was unbroken, we'd never connect with anyone — Lynn Charles

There was something about funerals. It made you see things better. A funeral a day and I'd be rich. — Charles Bukowski

I'd never realized how bad that house needed music until I heard it, I knew right then that big houses need music more than little ones. — Charles Davis

If I was to put a little flag in everywhere I've been in the world, there'd be a lot of little flags. — Charles Dance

If you thought about it you'd realize that you don't have control over everything, but you control how you react — Charles Benoit

I've often thought that the unit of measure that best suits prose is the human breath — Charles D'Ambrosio

He'd never wanted to know, which is also a sort of knowing. — Charles Lambert

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood. — Charles Dickens

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music. — Charles Frazier

You all have stories, Sandy said. And we have secrets — Charles D'Ambrosio

Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid — Charles Lamb

Time, like a flurry of wild rain,
Shall drift across the darkened pane! — Charles G.D. Roberts

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord. — Charles Lamb

Everything died off and disappeared in that silent way only an eon can absorb and keep secret. — Charles D'Ambrosio

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. — Charles Bukowski

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer. — Bill Bryson

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects. — Charles D. Broad

What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve. — Charles Frazier

If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats — Charles Mingus

...the boy saw faces disinigrate before his eyes, faces that fell to pieces, then disappeared, leaving a hole. — Charles D'Ambrosio

Which should be an excellent reminder that when God tells you to do something, you'd better do it; He always has a reason. — Charles R. Swindoll

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not. — Charles Frazier

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons! — Charles M. Schulz

Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son. — Stephen King

Never make it without the compass. In the trees, I'd lose all sense of perspective. Direction. Maybe life is like that. — Charles Martin

With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. — Charles Churchill

about how they'd all fair — Charles S. Jackson

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them. — Charles D. Broad

Violet Lynn Parker, you'd better spill or I'll start bellowing 'Happy Birthday' to you in my Bobcat Goldthwait voice. — Ann Charles

Other writers tell me about these bushel baskets delivered at the front door. If I've gotten 50 letters over the last 18 years, I'd be surprised. — Charles McCarry

I'd listen to the radio and look at the
walls and get drunk enough to
almost forget her
but then she would return once
again. — Charles Bukowski

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles

Great, he can't read my mind. What I'd give to be dating Charles Xavier - though — Krista Ritchie

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire. — Charles G.D. Roberts

I always loved that boy as if he'd been my
my
my own grandfather. — Charles Dickens

I'd walk over my own grandmother to re-elect Richard Nixon. — Charles Colson

Believe me, if I started murdering people there'd be none of ya left. — Charles Manson

it's nearly impossible to convey our deepest passions yet damned easy to share what's dullest and worst about ourselves. — Charles D'Ambrosio

I was always a killer. It was my skill, and they'd taught me well. She taught me love. — Charles Todd

Bob loses saving throw vs. shiny with a penalty of -5. Bob takes 2d8 damage to the credit card. — Charles Stross

Oh, you've got a sweet voice, baby, such a sad sad sweet voice, I'd like to fuck you, I thought. — Charles Bukowski

her knees, which looked, in the faint blue light, as though they'd been carved by water from a bar of soap. — Charles D'Ambrosio

She sighed. Ignatius, do you know what the opposite of love is?
Hate, I said.
Despair, Sister said. Despair is the opposite of love. — Charles D'Ambrosio

Folks double my age and older often run down a conversation tracking a vanishing world that will, with the passing of their memory, vanish entirely. — Charles D'Ambrosio

What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?"
"Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction! — Charles M. Schulz