Charles Ledley Quotes & Sayings

Hillary has her work cut out for her. Her Democratic challengers are a 'Who's Who' of 'who's that?' Jim Webb, Lincoln Chafee, Silas Phelps, Peter Wilks ... now those last two were characters from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. You didn't even notice, did you? — Cecily Strong

For me, the Internet's like music. I don't like working without it. I will tune it out for hours at a time, as I get lost in the work, but I'd know if it wasn't there. If that makes sense. — Warren Ellis

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex. — Norman MacCaig

Doremus was amazed, felt a little apologetic over his failure to have appreciated this new-found paragon, as he sat in American Legion Hall and heard Shad bellowing: "I don't pretend to be anything but a plain working-stiff, but there's forty million workers like me, and we know that Senator Windrip is the first statesman in years that thinks of what guys like us need before he thinks one doggone thing about politics. Come on, you bozos! The swell folks tell you to not be selfish! Walt Trowbridge tells you to not be selfish! Well, be selfish, and vote for the one man that's willing to give you something - give you something! - and not just grab off every cent and every hour of work that he can get! — Sinclair Lewis

They had stumbled either upon a serious flaw in modern financial markets or into a great gambling run. Characteristically, they were not sure which it was. As Charlie pointed out, It's really hard to know when you're lucky and when you're smart. — Michael Lewis

Both had trouble generating conviction of their own but no trouble at all reacting to what they viewed as the false conviction of others. — Michael Lewis

I'm not a good guitar player. — Adam Jones

Only the one who has the understanding of time will be ready to give an account to the Lord for what He did on this earth. — Sunday Adelaja

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. — Joseph Conrad

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience ... but for a criminal government. — Walter Model

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance. — Ralph Ellison

If the subject peoples of the Inca Empire had known the fate of the inhabitants of Mexico, they would not have thrown in their lot with the invaders. But they did not know. — Yuval Noah Harari

It's a big mistake to try and mislead people. They will turn around. — Warren Buffett

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class. — Ian Schrager

Yes, words were superior; they maintained a superior control; they touched without your touching; they were at once the bait, the hook, the line, the pole, and the water in between. — William H Gass

The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Have you ever been anyone's?"
"No. And you?"
"I've never wanted to."
"Neither have I. Until I saw this lovely girl in Seattle, with big gold eyes, and pink, full lips ... and I wondered if she could understand me ... — Katy Evans