Charles Bukowski Quotes
I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.
Charles Bukowski
Quotes to Explore
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
Gabriel Byrne
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
Aaron Sorkin
Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
Patricia Marx
I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
Vidal Sassoon
I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
J. Cole
Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
Harriet Tubman
I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
Tao Lin
I've had writing sessions with people, but I've never had one where you're just there, and you start making a song, and then it's too good to be true that something really cool will come out of this.
Camila Cabello
Fifth Harmony
If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
Madhuri Dixit
R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
Babyface
For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
Edmund Spenser
There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.
Bob Brown
I feel like there's always somebody out there ready to take your man. If you got a good man, women are like you know their sleeping around.
Gabrielle Dennis
I plan my golf outfits for the tournaments, I recycle some for the practice rounds, but I always have new ideas for my golf attire, and I like to dress nice after the rounds, so I have to bring all my heels. It's terrible. The worst part about being on tour is living out of a suitcase.
Paula Creamer
I would love to have children, yes. Maybe even adopt them. I'm not sure that I should pass on my genes.
Linda Fiorentino
I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.
Charles Bukowski
