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 think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Dream
  • Child
  • Broken

• 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

• If you've raged, if you've mistreated somebody, if you've ever thought only about yourself - these are things that all human beings struggle with and judge themselves for.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • Struggle
  • Judge

• If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

  

  Herodotus
  • Country
  • Opportunity
  • Religion

• The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• Collectivism stands for a society in which people from birth onwards are integrated into strong, cohesive in-groups, which throughout people's lifetime continue to protect them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty.

  

  Geert Hofstede
  • Protect
  • Integrated
  • Collectivism

• Never get out of bed before noon.

  

  Charles Bukowski