Charles Bukowski Quotes

a woman candropout of yourlife andforget youreal fast.a womancan't go anywherebut UPafterleaving you,honey.

Charles Bukowski

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• The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Career

• I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

  

  E. B. White
  • Know
  • Literature
  • More

• In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Career
  • Possible
  • Radio

• Sometimes videos make a bad song very tight.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Bad
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• You have to identify your shot and be 'Push your luck' ready for it.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • You
  • Luck
  • Push

• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Business

• I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Good
  • Together
  • Interesting

• In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Good
  • Achieve
  • Finding

• Miami is nothing like me, and that's why I need to be here - it's the opposite. I'm practical, where this place is moody, I'm stolid in my interior, where this place has a certain flair, and I'm materialistic in a sense that this place is fundamentally spiritual - there's a quicksilver quality about this place.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Why
  • Quality
  • Spiritual

• Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • World
  • Film
  • Communist

• The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Fade

• The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Nice

• If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Me
  • Response
  • Against

• We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Music
  • Learn
  • Fight

• Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

  

  Hanns Eisler
  • Music
  • Nothing
  • Someone

• The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Step
  • Mathematics
  • Elegance

• I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Down
  • Finding

• Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sex

• In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That is really the heart of consciousness.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • World
  • Heart
  • Organism

• No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Country

• In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Family
  • Together

• Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • People
  • Time

• I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Time

• a woman candropout of yourlife andforget youreal fast.a womancan't go anywherebut UPafterleaving you,honey.

  

  Charles Bukowski