Charles Bukowski Quotes

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

Charles Bukowski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994

Topics

CharacterSoulWallsManPoetryHe

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Johann Lamont

TruthChallengePoliticsTelling

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

Maya Angelou

MotherCookingMePorkLikeRoast

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

Matthew Desmond

LifeFamilyHomeCommunityYourself

I'd like to think that I'm a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life... we have to fight our battles - our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles - and we're focused.

Angelina Jolie

LifeWorkHomeChildrenFightSweet

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Jean Rostand

TimeFeelNeedSameWellQuarrel

Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect's carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the Nest Thermostat automatically turns off the gas furnace.

Tony Fadell

ProtectNestOffGasLikeAlarm

The knighthood for my humanitarian work meant more than if it had been for my acting.

Roger Moore

WorkActingMoreHumanitarianBeen

I never listened to people who said I wasn't going to make it.

Riyad Mahrez

PeopleSaidNeverGoingMakeWho

We kind of forget because what television tends to do with these professions like lawyers and doctors and police officers, we create them on such a heroic level that you kind of forget that these are really people.

Rocky Carroll

PolicePeopleYouTelevisionCreate

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Roz Chast

ChangeMeLearnYouArtistNice

In the end, the public has the right to know about any undertakings top public officials engage in that may influence how they conduct the people's business.

Mike Quigley

BusinessPeopleInfluenceEndKnow

I never really planned on doing a television series.

Judah Friedlander

DoingTelevisionNeverPlanned

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