Charles Bukowski Quotes

'Every man is a poet'

Charles Bukowski

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• No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Man
  • Intelligent
  • Down

• I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Career

• I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Great
  • Career
  • Brain

• Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Future
  • Success

• I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Ambition
  • Shakespeare

• A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.

  

  Raj Kapoor
  • Parents
  • Man
  • Woman

• I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.

  

  Imelda May
  • Career
  • Way
  • Me

• All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Music
  • Mean
  • Rock

• Economics should be defined in terms of what it is about. It should be about how people produce things, how people exchange them, how people earn income, how they pay taxes, how the government provides infrastructure with tax revenue, and how it conducts monetary policy. The subject has to be defined in terms of the object of inquiry.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Government
  • Economics

• I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

  

  Ian Hunter
  • Nature
  • Think
  • More

• Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Great
  • Light
  • Universe

• I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • World
  • Want
  • Audiences

• As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Long
  • Will
  • Survive

• I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Just
  • Middle
  • Grades

• Look! A see-through wall of glass! 22

  

  Ze Frank
  • Wall

• Als vorübergehender Zustand ist der Skeptizismus logische Insurrektion; als System ist er Anarchie. Skeptische Methode wäre also ungefähr wie insurgente Regierung.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence-to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Violence

• If we could let go of our faith in money, who knows what we might put in its place?

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Money
  • Faith

• Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Men
  • Children
  • Done

• I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.

  

  Kevin James
  • People
  • Kids
  • Proud

• My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Work
  • Children
  • Today

• Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Believe
  • Brave

• For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Choose

• 'Every man is a poet'

  

  Charles Bukowski