Charles Bukowski Quotes

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Charles Bukowski

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• Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Him
  • Communist

• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Like
  • Thought

• The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Always

• As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Time
  • World
  • Ideas

• I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Happy
  • Commercial
  • Heroine

• Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Being
  • Production
  • Proteins

• I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

  

  Tariq Anwar
  • Technology
  • Play
  • Role

• I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Home
  • She
  • Remember

• I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Relationship
  • I Can

• When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Find
  • Gold
  • Name

• I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Friends
  • Stars
  • Cinema

• I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Ambiguity
  • Constructive

• I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

  

  Edmund White
  • Eyes
  • Happiness
  • Celebrity

• Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).

  

  Abdus Salam
  • December

• Unnamed director: The script is too caustic.Goldwyn: To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Good
  • Picture

• Successful men and women become successful because they acquire the habit of thinking in terms of success. Get the success habit in the small circumstances you control, and soon you'll be controlling the bigger ones.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Earth

• The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.

  

  Peter Brook
  • World
  • Together
  • Community

• We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Hope
  • Desire
  • Changes

• Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Envy