Willeford Quotes & Sayings

Peace would settle on his soul. — Steven Erikson

No whiskey, no religion, nothing. — Charles Willeford

My work is one long triumph over my limitations. — Charles Willeford

Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new. — Donald E. Westlake

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

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

Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. — Charles Willeford

God's words first ... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man. — Manny Pacquiao

A man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance. — Charles Willeford

I don't really watch that much TV, to be honest. — Emily Blunt

The lens is the actor's best critic ... showing his mind more clearly than on the stage. You can get wonderful cooperation out of the lens if you are true, but God help you if you are not. — Sydney Greenstreet

It is a funny thing. A man can make a promise to his God, break it five minutes later and never think about it. With an idle shrug of his shoulders, a man can break solemn promises to his mother, wife or sweetheart, and, except for a slight momentary twinge of conscience, he still won't be bothered very much. But if a man ever breaks a promise to himself he disintegrates. His entire personality and character crumble into tiny pieces, and he is never the same man again.
I remember very well a sergeant I knew in the army. Before a group of five men he swore off smoking forever. An hour later he sheepishly lit a cigarette and broke his vow to the five of us and to himself. He was never quite the same man again, not to me, and not to himself. — Charles Willeford

They were generous in the way of people running a garage sale who give things away to the folks who come at the end. — J. Ryan Stradal

You know, I'm behind my company. My company has been a big part of my life. And it's not that I been buying a company or that my father bought a company and tried to do something out of it. You know, it's not the same thing. It's my name, it's my company, it's my signature. — Christian Louboutin

Thinking, when you first try it, is very difficult. — Charles Willeford

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

All our pompe the earth covers. — George Herbert

Snapchat changed that perception of deleting something as bad. Online, typically you delete something if it's bad or if it's really embarrassing. — Evan Spiegel

he was an oddity of some magnitude. — Charles Willeford

The Filipino houseboy was conscious now — Charles Willeford

Nothing human surprises me. — Charles Willeford

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

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

Smoking comforts ordinary men, but I'm not an ordinary man. There aren't many like me left. And it's a good thing for the world that there isn't. There'll always be a few of us in America in every generation. Because only a great country like America can produce men like me. I'm not a thinker, I'm a doer. — Charles Willeford

No Latina woman would be called 'Ms.' - that's an invention of middle-class Anglo women. Latina women are proud to be called 'Mrs.' That simply means that we have a family. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I think the martial arts tradition has a big influence on our generation - we all read these novels when we were very young. — Wong Kar-Wai

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