Bukowski Esque Poems Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes she is struck by how much she goes through life almost unconsciously. She is being swept along. She is a pale ghost. — Kate Zambreno

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster. — Johan Cruyff

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker. — Carl Sandburg

May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition. — Mahatma Gandhi

CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature. — James Hansen

One must be cold if one wishes to savor chaos. — Ferdinand Hardekopf

Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories. — Ashot Nadanian

The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must surely have heard of us: we were called oracles, nymphs, spirits, fairies, household gods, lemures, larvas, lamias, sprites, water-nymphs, incubi, shades, spirits of the dead, specters and ghosts. — Cyrano De Bergerac

Their object is disunion. — Andrew Jackson

On some nights I take a little laudanum and a few months ago Mrs Abernetty recommended pillows stuffed with camel hair. She was absolutely right. — Anthony Horowitz

This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence? — Mary McCarthy

This notion that man can, and should, have absolute dominion over the "chaotic" powers of nature and woman ... is what ultimately lies behind man's famous "conquest of nature" - a conquest that is today puncturing holes in the earth's ozone layer, destroying our forests, polluting our air and water, and increasingly threatening the welfare, and even survival, of thousands of living species, including our own. — Riane Eisler

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others. — Edward Abbey

I do occasionally get into that 'checking Twitter every five minutes' state - 'Please, help me avoid my work.' I have a writing room for when I get completely out of control, so I can put myself out of the Internet's reach. — Margo Lanagan

in his direction. "She is being — Julia Quinn