Charles Bukowski Quotes
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I was an expert horseman.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
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It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
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I came to America to make it my home, and I did.
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I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.
