Charles Bukowski Quotes

Hell was what you made it.

Charles Bukowski

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• Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Important
  • Why
  • New

• He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Man
  • Him
  • Telephone

• The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fall

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Environment

• The ways in which readers encounter and relate to information is dramatically influenced by their education as well as their awareness of the pitfalls relating to the information source.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Education
  • Information

• This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Age
  • Father
  • Man

• Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • People
  • Good
  • Care

• In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Doing
  • Deserve
  • Praise

• Art is more engaging that propaganda.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Art
  • More
  • Propaganda

• When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Song
  • Light
  • Church

• I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • People
  • Work
  • Competition

• It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Government
  • Own
  • Oil

• I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Enjoy

• You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Words
  • Moment

• The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Information

• Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Done
  • Poetry
  • Convince

• I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• I don't allow chivalry to die, on my part, but as far as guys taking care of their woman, and, making sure that it's not all about self, it's about giving, and how a lot of guys don't groom themselves, how a lot of guys don't take care of themselves.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Guy
  • Care
  • Self

• I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

  

  Bea Arthur
  • God
  • Comedy
  • Voice

• All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Reasoning
  • Sentiment
  • Boils

• The press Yazoo were receiving were focused on the voice, This obviously was about trends.

  

  Alison Moyet

• I think there is empirical evidence that if you look at family controlled businesses, they actually outperform in terms of results and also valuations, the broader market.

  

  John Elkann
  • Family

• Hell was what you made it.

  

  Charles Bukowski