Charles Bukowski Quotes

When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Charles Bukowski

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HopeBestWritingYouMadNo Hope

I wasn't into jazz so much - I preferred things raw.

Jimmy Page

JazzThingsRawMuchPreferred

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

John Boyd Orr

GrowthKnowledgeLawSmallThink

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

EducationGreatOpportunitiesChicago

I think that what's perceived as punk out in shopping malls or in chain stores or on MTV has almost nothing to do with what punk is about.

Jello Biafra

ShoppingThinkNothingPunkOutMTV

The thing we have to be careful of is that the Internet is a global communications medium, and if one country tips the balance in regulating its use or regulating what companies or individuals do on the web, it could have an economic impact that might be unintended, quite frankly, by the regulations themselves.

John W. Thompson

BalanceImpactInternetCountryWeb

Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury's believing their word over a police officer's are slim to none.

Michelle Alexander

PolicePeopleYearGuiltyKnowOdds

Directors, writers, and actors are interested in making movies with me. Producers and movie studio people are not interested in me as they are in Kevin Costner or Tom Cruise. That's just the fact of the matter.

Michael O'Keefe

PeopleMeMoviesMatterCruiseJust

I always thought, it would be neat to make the Olympic team.

Michael Phelps

TeamThoughtAlwaysWouldOlympic

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

NatureTogetherUnityHumanBring

It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

FightBetterYouDoneThingsClear

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Derek Jeter

WorkLovePeopleMeDoubtWrong

I used to go to San Diego all the time to hang out. My cousin played for the San Diego Padres, and my brother lives down there. I love going to the zoo and walking around Old Town.

Drake Bell

LoveTimeBrotherWalkingDownZoo

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