Quotes About Bohemianism

#1. If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.

Lionel Trilling

#2. I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America ... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

Amiri Baraka

#3. Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis.

Henri Murger

#4. When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

Brene Brown

#5. I feel kinda happy. I discover that you were not leaving or disappearing. It is like you are here, there and everywhere. Just in the air. You taught me about time. I am now learning about space. It seems that both just vanish. It is awesome. Maybe the closest feeling to love.

Daul Kim

#6. That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.

Kiera Cass

#7. She paused before the fallen rider. He stared up at her from within a grimacing, battle stained face. Hatred and fear battled for supremacy in his eyes. Sasha met his gaze directly with a stare of utter contempt.
'Where are your gods now?' she said.

Joel Shepherd

#8. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing will change. The present will still be the present. The future will still unfold as it's meant to.

Allison Winn Scotch

#9. A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life.

Paul Tsongas

#10. No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

Kevin Mitnick

#11. An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#12. Remember the look in the eyes of the Aussies and the Kiwis yesterday - I don't want to see that here.

John Smit

#13. ... a kind of Calvinist in reverse; that is, he was uncompromisingly bohemian

Renata Adler

#14. The direct pursuit of happiness is a recipe for an unhappy life.

Donald Campbell

#15. There was human goodness in the world, she thought-all caught up with desires and dreams, regrets and bitterness, resentments and power, but it was there.

Cassandra Clare

#16. When I want something, I go after it. And baby, I want you, and all I can say is you might be smart to run before I get any more into you, but please don't.

Lisa Renee Jones

#17. You mustn't think to embarrass them with your witnessing, Your Excellency; they won't be embarrassed.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#18. But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

Philip K. Dick

#19. The question of souls is old - we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.

Voltairine De Cleyre

#20. A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.

David Hume

#21. My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved.

Virginia Nicholson