Charles Barkley Quotes

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

Charles Barkley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 20, 1963

Topics

GoodSportsShoesMeRichHandsome

We grew up near a cinematheque in Cleveland, so we were very influenced by international cinema, the French New Wave, Italian neo-realists.

Joe Russo

WaveCinemaNewUpClevelandFrench

Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.

Andrew Yang

ProgressEyeIsolationYearsFar

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

Matt Taibbi

ToughProcessDownCreatingLetters

That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

Anna Lindh

TimeFightingSameResourcesYears

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.

Rita Rudner

BusyBankTwoLocalExceptVery

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

Martin Van Creveld

WorkLiveSunMeHelpWill

I think sports can bring a lot of happiness to people.

Miguel Cabrera

HappinessSportsPeopleThinkBring

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

LifeSelfOthersGiveBeenAble

If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.

Peter Mullan

HomePastWritingHouseMy OwnOwn

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Thomas Fuller

ArtWorldFameMoreEchoLast

Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.

Rick Rubin

FearPeopleStartProcessYouKnow

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

Marie Windsor

BusyDevilAlwaysUpLittleCook

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