Charles Bukowski Quotes

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Charles Bukowski

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• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

  Ovid
  • Up
  • Never
  • Horse

• You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Fall

• I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Why
  • She

• There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Limitations
  • Except

• Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Bad
  • Thought

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Rock
  • New York

• You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Hunger
  • Idiot

• I had been carpooling kids for 33 years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Years
  • Been

• In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money

• (On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18

  

  Ze Frank
  • Free
  • Exercise
  • Airplane

• Around the child bend all the threeSweet Graces: Faith, Hope, Charity.Around the man bend other faces;Pride, Envy, Malice, are his Graces.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Pride

• The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Past
  • Present

• The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’s place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires.And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Today
  • Desire

• All good niggas, all the niggas who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • World
  • Die
  • Violence

• Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Respect
  • Friendship

• Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • America

• Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

  

  Ricky Williams

• Finding someone that trusted my vision helped me find certainty in who I was.

  

  Syd
  • Trust
  • Vision
  • Find

• Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

  

  Annie E. Clark
  • Ego
  • Weaknesses
  • Confronting

• I was from the bush, watching Greg Norman on TV, but it was a world away.

  

  Stuart Appleby
  • World
  • Television
  • Watching

• As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Humanity
  • Ideals
  • Weaknesses

• I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

  

  Charles Bukowski