Quotes About Bohemians

#1. We were really poor when I was growing up; my parents, both artists, were bohemians. Life was a desperate struggle, but in service of a high ideal, which is exactly what my photographs are about.

Justine Kurland

#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. He has pleased all the bohemians by saying that women are equal to men; but he has infuriated them by suggesting that men are equal to women.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians.

Evan Davis

#5. I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.

Edie Brickell

#6. I consider myself fortunate that in my home, acting or the creative arts were a good option. This was a respected tour of duty in my family. Acting wasn't something that was left to tragic bohemians. But we weren't a family that obsessed on cinema.

Sean Penn

#7. She knew full well that writers were sex-crazed bohemians who broke the rules and didn't go out to work.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

Oscar Wilde

#9. The people follow what the media say. So if you said that Bruno Dumont is fantastic, it follows that more people would go to see my films. I have no wish to remain on the sidelines. I have no wish to make films that are only seen by bohemians in London and Paris.

Bruno Dumont

#10. My guitarist husband, Mike, and writer me are the old-fashioned kind of bohemians. Not 'fro-haired hipsters gyrating in iPod ads, but the sort who, starting January 1 of every year, literally don't know where their next dime is coming from.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#11. Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

Edward Weston

#12. I know writers like to think of themselves as bohemians,' he said, 'but that doesn't mean they can't behave like decent human beings.

Gert Loveday

#13. People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and the maternal grandmother will say, "Why is that baby crying so much, making her mom so tired?

Shin Kyung-sook

#14. Stop moving!" Hermione ordered them. "I know what this is - it's Devil's Snare!"
"Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron.

J.K. Rowling

#15. Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

Steve Earle

#16. Remember to Breathe!

Aaron Hoopes

#17. We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.

Albert Camus

#18. Life makes itself with little heed for the appropriate ( p 136).

Eimear McBride

#19. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Francine Prose

#20. There's no way to make the irrational work.

Ayn Rand

#21. I love the feeling of nostalgia vying with the present. That can be from song to song, or within the same song.

Britta Phillips

#22. It is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.

Oscar Wilde

#23. Study is the child of silence and mystery.

Henri Murger

#24. Divination is one of the most imprecise branches of magic. I shall not conceal from you that I have very little patience with it.

J.K. Rowling

#25. In seeking an empire of liberty, Jefferson wished not only to expand the country's territorial holdings, but also to extend American institutions around the globe.

Robert Dallek

#26. I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He's given you ... but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things ... he's not a small God; this God is incredible.

Joel Osteen

#27. She loved me for the dangers I had passed, And I loved her that she did pity them. This only is the witchcraft I have used.

William Shakespeare

#28. She said America was a spoiled child ignorant of grief.

George Saunders