Chinaski Quotes

#1. Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking.
Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)

Charles Bukowski

#2. Henry Chinaski, the principal said over the microphone. And I walked forward. There was no applause. The one kindly soul in the audience gave two or three clasps.

Charles Bukowski

#3. Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#4. Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

Arthur Machen

#5. The Angel's eyes widened curiously and her lips parted. a deep colour swept into her cheeks. She had intended to arouse him. She had more than succeeded. She was too young to know that in the effort to rouse a man, women frequently kindle fires that they neither can quench or control.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#6. If only people were trees ... I might like them better.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#7. However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.

Barack Obama

#9. Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

Martin Amis

#10. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt

M.C. Beaton

#11. Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler.

Mindy Kaling

#12. A young man of godlilke proportions* was standing in the doorway.
* The better class of gods, anyway. Not the ones with the tentacles, obviously.

Terry Pratchett