Charlotte Quotes - page 2

So then at forty-six years of age I came here to learn to live by cliches,' is what Day says to Charlotte Treat right after Randy Lenz asked what time it was, again, at 0825. 'To turn my will and life over to the care of cliches. One day at a time. Easy does it. First things first. Courage is fear that has said its prayers. Ask for help. Thy will not mine be done. It works if you work it. Grow or go. Keep coming back.' [...] I walk around with my arms out straight in front of me and recite these cliches. In a monotone. No inflection necessary. Could that be one? Could that be added to the cliche-pool? "No inflection necessary"? Too many syllables, probably. (David Foster Wallace)
"Wonder if it's all true?" said Charlotte, as we hurried up the path. "Sounded dreadfully like nonsense, in parts!" "P'raps its true for all that," I replied encouragingly. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
The roar of the.45 shook the room. Charlotte staggered back a step. Her eyes were a symphony of incredulity, an unbelieving witness to truth. Slowly, she looked down at the ugly swelling in her naked belly where the bullet went in. "How c-could you?" she gasped. I had only a moment before talking to a corpse, but I got it in. "It was easy," I said. View quote
Mickey Spillane
I'm in Good Charlotte. I have tattoos so I was cool for them. View quote
Andy Hurley
Still, Claire hated Charlotte Brontë's comment that she would have given all her talent to be beautiful. That condemned you always to play somebody else's game-and, when your looks failed-finally to lose. View quote
Gregory Benford
"We're going to have a séance. Oren, open the whisky, if you would, and pour each of us a full glass.” "First sensible remark all night,” said Charlotte. View quote
Tim Powers
Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. View quote
J. D. Salinger
Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything. View quote
Harlan Coben
Don't beat yourself up," said Charlotte. "True love can be so easily mistaken for other things-friendship, humane concern, indigestion... View quote
Shannon Hale
Fashion drawing teacher: 'Yes, drawing is a difficult art. One has to have some talent for it - and unfortunately you haven't. Charlotte: 'No, I refuse to stay here with this stupid old cow, where through the dirty window even the sun's bright ray can only dimly play... Only he who dares can win. Only he who dares can begin. View quote
Charlotte Salomon
Charlotte: 'I have some more [paintings she recently made] to show you'. Daberlohn: Well, let's meet this evening..... Isn't it absurd to address each other so formally? You're such a baby – here, let me hold your hand.... Real painter's hands'. Charlotte: 'To me they're just ugly'....'You would be a wonderful subject for a portrait -' Daberlohn (to himself) : 'Little girl, if you only knew what one has to go through to be able to paint. (Charlotte Salomon)
Daberlohn's diagnosis [about the etching she made as his portrait] holds encouragement for Charlotte.... Daberlohn (in his letter) 'In my opinion you are destined to create something above average.' ....'Above average.' She is elated by his letter and really feels quite proud... While beginning to paint the buttercup-strewn meadow where she happens to be sitting, she decides to make his prophecy come true and actually create something 'above average'. View quote
Charlotte Salomon
Franziska (mother of Charlotte): 'In Heaven everything is much more beautiful than here in earth – and when your Mummy has turned into a little angel she'll.... bring a letter, telling her what's like in Heaven.. View quote
Charlotte Salomon
The tri-coloured play with music begins' (in Deutsch: Das Drei Farben Singespiel beginnt..) the cast is as follows Dr. and MRS. Knarre, a married couple Franziska and Charlotte, their daughters Dr. Kahn, a physician Charlotte Kahn, his daughter Paulinka Bimbam, a singer Dr. Singsong, a versatile person Professor Klingklang, a famous conductor An Art teacher Professor and Students at an art academy and Chorus.. .. The action takes places during the years 1913 to 1940 in Germany, later in Nice, France. View quote
Charlotte Salomon
And now something strange happened to our Charlotte. While busy painting, as she always was, she fell asleep in the midday sun. And when she awoke, the finished portrait of her once so ardently beloved Daberlohn [ = Alfred Wolfsohn ] lay before her. However, she tore the sheet into a hundred thousand shreds.... she sought for an explanation... Then her glace fell on one of her old paintings representing Death and the Maiden. And suddenly she knew... View quote
Charlotte Salomon
.. even happens that each character has to sing a different text, resulting in a chorus. The varied nature of the paintings should be attributed less to the author than to the varies nature of the characters to be portrayed. The author [= Charlotte Salomon] has tried.... to go completely out of herself to allow the characters to sing or speak in their own voices. In order to achieve this, many artistic values had to be renounced, but I hope that.... this will be forgiven. View quote
Charlotte Salomon
I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells. View quote
Bruce Oldfield
I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so compelling that you didn't have to do much with the placement of cameras. View quote
Cary Fukunaga
I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it. View quote
David Harewood
Charlotte is a very interesting place - I'm Canadian, but I've lived in Toronto, Vancouver, and I've been living here in L.A. for years. View quote
Diego Klattenhoff
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling. (Karen Thompson Walker)
I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term. View quote
Lesley Garrett
To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!' View quote
Cheryl Hayashi
My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands. View quote
Robin Hayes
I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling. View quote
Roman Coppola