Charles Bukowski Quotes

Never get out of bed before noon.

Charles Bukowski

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• I have never broken a contract in my career.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Never
  • Broken

• I have been immeasurably honored to serve the people of Maine for nearly 40 years in public office and for the past 17 years in the United States Senate. It was incredibly difficult to decide that I would not seek a fourth term in the Senate.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Past
  • Difficult

• History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • History
  • Tool
  • Intentions

• An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Court
  • Ask

• If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Deep

• One thing I really love in my single, 'Just Can't Let You Go,' is the beatboxing; I think it's really cool. Also, in my music, I'm not afraid to say what I want to say. I also think it's relatable for other girls out there.

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Love
  • Single

• Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Miss
  • Less
  • Damn

• 'Whiplash' was always the song I hated the most because it's a song designed to screw with drummers.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Song
  • Always
  • Screw

• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Bird

• The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • End
  • Part

• I do not believe the government has the right to investigate somebody's private life.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Government

• I have never applied for a share in Tehelka.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Never
  • Share
  • Applied

• But here's an object more of dread Than ought the grave contains - A human form with reason fled, While wretched life remains.Poor Matthew! Once of genius bright, A fortune-favored child - Now locked for aye, in mental night, A haggard mad-man wild.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Night
  • Mad

• The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the darkness.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • House

• I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Women
  • Today
  • Free

• Resolved, That is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Women
  • Country

• On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l'amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Present
  • Dance
  • Red

• I directed plays in college. It's something that I have sort of always put in the back of my mind, and I'm a busy actress, and it's very difficult to sort of find the time, honestly, to commit to directing. It's a very - it's a big, big job.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Job

• We need a resilient, well-capitalized, well-regulated financial system that is strong enough to withstand even severe shocks and support economic growth by lending through the economic cycle.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Strong
  • Support
  • Growth

• We –finally-look upon change, the every-unfolding future, with confidence rather than doubt, hope rather than fear. We, as a people, were born of revolution. And we have lived by change-always a frontier people, exploring-if not new wilderness-then new science and new knowledge.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • People
  • Hope
  • Future

• I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

  

  Rick Baker
  • Always
  • Fascinated
  • Watched

• Better ingredients, better pizza - it's not a slogan. It's a way of life.

  

  John Schnatter
  • Life
  • Pizza

• There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. J. J. Greene Quotes.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Dream

• Never get out of bed before noon.

  

  Charles Bukowski