Charles Bukowski Quotes

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Charles Bukowski

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• If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Fear
  • Alone
  • Ego

• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Death
  • Terrorism
  • Sickness

• We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Need
  • Will

• If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Voice

• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Me
  • Kind

• I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Future
  • Fear
  • Motivated

• All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Dream
  • You
  • Try

• Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Attention
  • Present
  • Immigration

• I'm the baddest among the bad guys.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Bad
  • Guys
  • Among

• The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Rich
  • Circumstances
  • Cynical

• There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Education
  • Technology
  • Only

• I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Beatles

• I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Important
  • Politics
  • Enjoy

• When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her memoirs, no one said Jane Fonda was snitching.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Said
  • Wrote
  • Memoirs

• For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Flower
  • Bird

• As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• Either you can subscribe to the American creed which says that God endowed us with our rights, or you can subscribe to the abortion creed which says that those rights are the consequences of our mother's will.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • God
  • American
  • Mother

• The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.

  

  August Wilson
  • Work
  • Important
  • America

• Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • May
  • Daughter

• Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the sounds of children streaming in and out of red brick tenements.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Remember

• I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

  

  Charles Bukowski