Quotes About Bohemia

#1. I need to be allowed to make my own decisions and mistakes, take leaps - and fall - without receiving too much help, because it's what I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

Adora Svitak

#2. Aomame imagined the carefree winds sweeping across the plains of Bohemia and thought about the vicissitudes of history.

Haruki Murakami

#3. It was not what he expected from a foulmouthed flower of bohemia, but he had a feeling there was both more and less to her than that.

Michael Chabon

#4. I say that every prince ought to desire to be considered clement and not cruel. Nevertheless he ought to take care not to misuse this clemency.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#5. Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

O. Henry

#6. Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

John Amos Comenius

#7. The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.

Ezra Hall Gillett

#8. Men are frightful nuisances at times; how much simpler life would be if we women did not have to make allowances for their little peculiarities.

Elizabeth Peters

#9. There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.

Rachel Ward

#10. The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

Pankaj Mishra

#11. Originality is going back to origins.

Antonio Gaudi

#12. I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.

Gustav Mahler

#13. Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Leonard Bernstein

#14. Our multiplication must increase to fill the earth. That right there, is a possession

Sunday Adelaja

#15. There are no roads in all Bohemia !

Gelett Burgess

#16. Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

Cynthia Ozick

#17. Well, isn't Bohemia a place where everyone is as good as everyone else - and must not a waiter be a little less than a waiter to be a good Bohemian?

Djuna Barnes

#18. The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#19. I sat with my toes buried in the warm yellow sand staring out towards the back door of The East. Pacific Ocean Blue was playing in the background and it had left me in a state of Bohemia as the waves crashed ashore; roaring as loud as lions.

David Louden

#20. You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh ... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York.

Jay McInerney

#21. I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort ... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

Camille Claudel

#22. Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

Marc Almond

#23. Be inquisitive.
Be charming.
Be discerning.
Be assertive.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#24. Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

Kenneth Rexroth

#25. Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia.

Laini Taylor

#26. The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.

David Amram

#27. Mr. Lincoln's maxim and philosophy were: 'What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.' He never joined any Church. He was a religious man always, I think, but was not a technical Christian.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#28. We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

David Amram

#29. Worldwide travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home. Moses never got further than the Promised Land. Da Vinci and Beethoven never left Europe. Shakespeare hardly went anywhere at all-certainly not to Elsinore or the coast of Bohemia.

Jan Morris

#30. There would be no bohemia without smoking.

David Hockney

#31. I do have to say I have been very fortunate.

Kathryn Bigelow

#32. There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

Peter Mullan

#33. I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#34. This is of course the Prince of Wales's motto to this day, though subsequent princes have not adopted John of Bohemia's custom of fighting while tied up and blind.

Stephen Clarke

#35. You can overcome every hurdle with positive attitude.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

Tennessee Williams

#37. There is no normal, not really. Not a right and a wrong way to be. But there is belonging. That day in Bohemia with Jeremey and David and the girls, I belonged. I belonged as much as anybody on the mean. Maybe even a little bit more.

Heidi Cullinan

#38. I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.

Ken Livingstone

#39. I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

Bayard Taylor

#40. I can assure the Marquis de Chasteler that it is my unalterable determination never to set foot on any territory which acknowledges obedience to His Majesty the King of Bohemia and Hungary.

Marquis De Lafayette

#41. The real message of Christmas is not the gifts that we give to each other. Rather, it is a reminder of the gift that God has given to each of us. It is the only gift that truly keeps on giving.

Greg Laurie

#42. The Libertarian position on the freedom of speech is a strong support of freedom of speech, and we oppose government intervention in controlling what is or is not moral.

Michael Badnarik

#43. You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

Tim Walz