Charles Bukowski Ham On Rye Quotes

#1. To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Roger Ascham

#2. We learned at an early age that it was men's interpretation of our religion that restricted women's opportunities, not our religion itself. Islam in fact had been quite progressive toward women from its inception ...

Benazir Bhutto

#3. Blah, blah, blah. Demon boy, I can't speak that language. Furthermore, I don't want to pollute my brain by learning it. So it's time for you to learn mine. First lesson-I'm Say-been. I'm oft described as byoo-tee-full and mah-jest'ick.

Kresley Cole

#4. [Michael Bitbol] asked us to ponder whether the purpose of science is to provide answers about what things are in themselves, or if science is only our most advanced way of developing a pragmatic, conventional knowledge of phenomena sufficient to guide us in our actions.

Pier Luigi Luisi

#5. Sometimes we build such high walls for protection that we forget that our greatest enemy can grow from within.

Eishes Chayil

#6. What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you!
Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do?" "Catch butterflies

Charles Bukowski

#7. Icy pillars of serenity, spun from airy mist, entered my quiet vision in echoes of worlds unknown.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#8. God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

Max Lucado

#9. Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?

Charles Bukowski

#10. It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next.
It made me tired just to think of it.

Sylvia Plath

#11. I'm sure nothing more exciting will happen beyond finding some Roman ruins beneath the pasture, Gunner predicted, an excellent example of why he would never be called psychic in any understanding of the word.

Katie MacAlister

#12. We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.

Nathan Filer

#13. I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.

Esme Bianco

#14. I've always tried to do the smartest and best thing.

Ted Turner

#15. I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

Charles Bukowski