Charles J. Shields famous quotes

03-26-2025

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam.
I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmainism
Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
If there is willingness on the Palestinian side to reach an agreement, it is possible. We are conducting the negotiations with goodwill.
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

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