Charles Bukowski Quotes

When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

Charles Bukowski

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• I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Interesting
  • Attitude
  • Brand

• Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Game
  • Clarity

• We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • World
  • Die
  • Alone

• If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Good
  • Great
  • Healthy

• Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Change
  • Pain
  • Growth

• My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Father
  • Hurt
  • Elbow

• I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Serious
  • Issues
  • Diabetic

• Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • People
  • Why
  • Technology

• Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Human
  • Cat
  • Lion

• While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Long
  • Government
  • Democracy

• The Keynesian belief that 'demand' is always at the root of underemployment and slow growth is a fallacy.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Growth
  • Belief
  • Slow

• Coproporphyrin in particular is widespread; traces are present in normal urine and also in yeast. In special cultures, yeast can be made to produce considerable quantities of coproporphyrin.

  

  Hans Fischer
  • Present
  • Special
  • Cultures

• My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Father
  • Girl
  • Wind

• I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Up
  • Work
  • Summer

• I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Myself
  • Star
  • Laugh

• I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Different
  • Think
  • Political

• Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Experience
  • Enemy

• It was not necessary and might even have been disadvantageous for a government to claim a direct personal commission and communion of the kind God had given some rulers in the Old Testament. A working government might need the support of the Church but not of God Himself in a voice from on high.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • God
  • High
  • Support

• Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Emotions
  • Flowers
  • Conflicts

• The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Chance
  • Personal computer

• Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Foundation
  • Moderation
  • Unstable

• The crown of a supertall redwood has a towering, cloudy, irregular form, and the crowns of the tallest redwoods can sometimes look like the plume of exhaust from a rocket taking off.

  

  Richard Preston
  • Exhaust
  • Redwood
  • Irregular

• We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • May
  • Hate
  • Identity

• When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

  

  Charles Bukowski