Charles Bukowski Quotes

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?

Charles Bukowski

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• After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Country
  • Ignore

• I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Give
  • Finished

• William Regal has been the most influential person in my entire career.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Person
  • Most

• But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Unique

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Writing
  • Girl
  • You

• I like that conventions want me to appear and festivals want me to come speak because they like the climate I attract. It's a good feeling.

  

  Adam Green
  • Feeling
  • Climate
  • Conventions

• When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Think
  • You

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Why
  • Want
  • Loudest

• I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Think

• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Know
  • Hard

• I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Great
  • Know
  • Joy

• With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Self-confidence

• Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Common
  • Privacy
  • Sitting

• 'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Life
  • History

• Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • World
  • Women
  • Silence

• After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Home
  • Alone
  • Myself

• In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • People
  • Power
  • Inspired

• A good title is a work of a genius!

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Good
  • Work
  • Genius

• The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

  

  Martin Rees
  • May
  • Earth
  • Legacy

• I had been doing theater since I was a kid, so the stage really felt like home to me. It felt like the place where I trust myself the most in the world and felt the most confident.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • World
  • Home
  • Trust

• If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Good
  • Women
  • Bad