Charles Bukowski Quotes

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Charles Bukowski

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• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Music
  • Today
  • Song

• It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Business
  • Think
  • Know

• Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: Anytime something was not good, or anytime something was bad in some kinda way, it had to be called black. Like, you had Black Monday, Black Friday, black sheep... Of course, everything else, all the good stuff, is white. White Christmas and such.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Want

• I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Food
  • Addict
  • Downfall

• There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Seem

• Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Famous

• Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Future
  • Freedom
  • Growing

• If you just can't seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you've had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Help
  • Priorities

• The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

  

  Karl Rove
  • World
  • Better
  • Place

• We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Simple
  • Embrace
  • Detail

• At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Building
  • Research
  • Engineering

• The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.

  

  Earl Browder
  • American
  • Reform
  • Champions

• A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.

  

  Maria Edgeworth
  • Country
  • Friend

• I've spent a good deal of time in the Middle East over the years, lecturing at universities in places like Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Morocco.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Time
  • Good

• To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Good

• After 'Boy Meets World' ended, I didn't know if I was going to be lucky enough to work on a show with as many talented people and feel such a family comradery.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Shoes

• When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

  

  Terrence Malick
  • People
  • Important
  • Struggle

• Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

  

  Plato
  • Heart
  • Sings
  • Whispers

• Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Understand
  • Born

• I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say. There are some interesting facts I could share, but I don't want to share that part of myself.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Interesting
  • Couple

• Those of us who know the transporting wonder of a reading life know that it little matters where we are when we talk about books or meet authors or bemoan the state of publishing because when we read, we are always inside, sheltered in that interior room, that clean, well-lighted, timeless place that is the written word.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Wonder

• Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

  

  Charles Bukowski