I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
I think, about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is not really about anything: it is what it is. But nonfiction - and you see this particularly with something like the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction - nonfiction we define in relation to what it's about. So, Stalingrad by Antony Beevor. It's "about" Stalingrad. Or, here's a book by Claire Tomalin: it's "about" Charles Dickens.
Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?
Most people are dead. Hitler. Ray Charles. Some other guys. But mostly those two.
I loved the filthy, gorgeous rawness of Charles Jeffrey. You just wish you could be young enough and cool enough to be part of his gang. That's what fashion's all about.
Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
I probably should've listened to Michael a year ago when he said that Charles will never win a championship because he doesn't show any dedication.
150 years ago in [Charles] Dickens's time there was at least a sense of craft. So some of the things people had inside of them, they had the possibility of expressing in the making of things - even in a daily way with their clothes or their food. People made a good deal of both themselves. Now our daily lives are almost all consumption. Craft plays a tiny role.
Roland La Starza was tough, but Ezzard Charles was the toughest man I ever fought. I learned what pain was all about when I fought him.
You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.
It's like eight thousand birds, Charles! Charles! Isn't it like eight thousand birds?
To the extent anybody had heard of the [Charles] Kushner name at that point, it was a very tarnished name.
My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.
I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.
I can use the teachings of [Charles] Darwin to promote communism.
Thought impregnated with love becomes invincible. (Charles Haanel)
I went to the top lady, the Queen, sobbing and I said, ''What do I do? I'm coming to you, what do I do?''And she said, ''I don't know what you should do, Charles is hopeless''. And that was it, that was help.
The only difference between the women I've dated and Charles Manson is that Manson has the decency to look like a nut case when you first meet him.
I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.