Top 66 Quotes About Bums
#1. The days are numbered for those bums over in England."
German Tank commander
Leo McKinstry
#2. I've always thought of myself as an Expo. I probably had better seasons with the Cubs. The fan base and the bleacher bums at Wrigley Field were so enthusiastic compared to later years with the Expos.
Andre Dawson
#4. Bums playing strip poker with a robot. Unsettling. Thanks for showing me.
Matthew Loux
#5. Our Father who art in nature ... must have a great and overwhelming love for no-goods and blots-on-the-town and bums, and Mack and the boys.
John Steinbeck
#6. Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
Jackson Pollock
#7. The bums were better dressed, younger, but just as listless. They sat around on the window ledges, hunched forward, getting warm in the sun and drinking the free coffee that W.F.I. offered. There was no cream and sugar, but it was free.
Charles Bukowski
#8. APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
Edsger Dijkstra
#9. Fools blow air out of their mouths as often as their bums, and either way it causes a stink and comes to nothing.
Isobelle Carmody
#10. We've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door ... if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his "no trespassing" sign
Tom Robbins
#11. It's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.
Erik Naggum
#12. Bums panhandled instead of getting a job. People dropped their trash on the sidewalk or tossed it from their car windows. All these actions said the same thing: my shit is more important than yours. The world was a self-centered place and he hated it for it.
Simon Wood
#13. Why is he so mad about white tiled sinks and 'kitchen machinery' he calls it? People have good hearts whether or not they live like Dharma Bums.
Jack Kerouac
#14. At the beach, college girls lay in groups on the sand around buckets of drinks, their bums curved up like fruits. Mine didn't do that.
Tamara Faith Berger
#15. There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work because producers want bums on seats, and they're going to get bums on seats if they get a name, if you have had that series on telly.
Alexander Hanson
#16. I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.
Charles Bukowski
#17. Baseball freely admits that the sport
like civilized society
is crawling with bums.
Dan Gutman
#18. As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
Hunter S. Thompson
#19. In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti.
James Thurber
#20. From David Niven's autobiography, Bring on the Empty Horses. Director Mike Curtiz to David Niven & Errol Flynn: You lousy bums, you and your stinking language, you think I know fuck nothing, well let me tell you - I know FUCK ALL!
David Niven
#21. It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.
Ornette Coleman
#22. Both my parents were a tremendous influence on me. My father's influence came from - he decided well, probably before we were born that as he put it, 'I'm not going to have any kids who are country club bums.'
Charles Koch
#23. I was going to be a teacher and improve the world. Teach people with hooks for hands to fingerpaint, and teach bums to draw happy faces on beads.
Lloyd Kaufman
#24. Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.
George Edward Woodberry
#25. All my friends are bums. We all gather round our camp-fire (in a can) and sing songs of togetherness as we cuddle, to preserve our warmth...
Will Advise
#26. Everyone had something to offer and nobody appeared to have much money. Even the successful seemed to have just enough to live like extravagant bums.
Patti Smith
#27. The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious. Many in California are punks, beach bums just lying around in the sun and maybe collecting unemployment.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#28. Why should I pay the bums all that good folding money and then go out and do all the work myself?
Tony Galento
#29. To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it bums you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not, the Guest comes.
Rajneesh
#30. I love traveling, but I love the bum I married, and the bums I gave birth to, more. And the dogs. I love them, too.
MaryJanice Davidson
#31. Stenchgator, the Great Unwiped Bum... was listed in the Bumper Book of Bums as the stinkiest bum in the world. Most bums only registered one or two points on the Rectum scale, but Stenchgator came in at a nose-bruising 9.8 points.
Griffiths, Andy
#32. We fought very hard for feminism, for women's rights. What I'm seeing today is a very opposite thing. I don't know why, but I see women being put back in the place. And I hate it. We're losing all we worked so hard for and it really bums me out.
Stevie Nicks
#33. Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.
T.C. Boyle
#34. Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
Victoria Abril
#35. There are a lot of so-called "good Americans" who are really a bunch of bums.
Howard Stern
#36. 'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
Orson Welles
#37. I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'
Jimmy Carr
#39. With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.
Emma Donoghue
#40. I wandered out like a haggard ghost, and there she was, Frisco - long, bleak streets with trolley wires all shrouded in fog and whiteness. I stumbled around a few blocks. Weird bums (Mission and Third) asked me for dimes in the dawn.
Jack Kerouac
#41. Now all the bums is wondering where I be's at -if you ain't a barbie it's none of your freaking beeswax!!!
Nicki Minaj
#42. Give me a child until he is seven, thought Tom, and he is forever after mine. When the Fascists say it, they're bums and kidnappers, but when the Church says it, it is known as putting a kid on the right track.
Grace Metalious
#43. Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.
William Holden
#44. It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.
Whoopi Goldberg
#45. Breasts were one thing: they were in front, where you could have some control over them. Then there were bums, which were behind, and out of sight, and thus more lawless. Apart from loosely gathered skirts, nothing much could be done about them.
Margaret Atwood
#46. I've had the joy of working on critically acclaimed shows, but unfortunately, those shows aren't always in the Golden Globe or Emmy categories, which bums me out because they are really good, quality shows.
Charisma Carpenter
#47. You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
Adam Garcia
#48. Somebody tells you they drink because they're a failure, it ain't so. They're a failure because they drink. And they drink because it's so damn hard not to. But as long as they have a bottle that isn't empty, they never feel far from being happy.
("Bums")
William Kent Krueger
#49. It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.
James Stockdale
#50. Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and crazy people.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#51. It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?
James Grant
#52. See me in that new thing, bums is gaggin
Nicki Minaj
#53. Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.
Douglas Adams
#54. And he said that 47%-that's pretty high-47% of Americans are basically welfare bums who are mooching off the government. And then he said, 'My job is not to worry about those people.' You know, where do people get this stuff that Mitt Romney is a heartless, calculating c**ksucker?
Bill Maher
#55. All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
Jack Kerouac
#56. Boys don't go for fat girls. They talk about wanting 'real women', but what they mean is big tits. Not thighs, not bellies, not fat bums. They want skin and bone.
Claire Hennessy
#57. At first, I didn't really care if global warming existed. But then I realized it means that less bums would freeze to death in the winter
Zach Braff
#58. I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.
John Steinbeck
#59. I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
Cardinal Richelieu
#60. The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.
Kathy Griffin
#61. We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.
Mike Patton
#62. I am a worthy cause," said Jack. "No. You are a bum," said the man.
Janet Schulman
#63. He wondered if he'd be better off staying at the bum shelter with his false bum and forgetting about his real bum. But he couldn't. His bum was trying to take over the world.
Griffiths, Andy
#64. It's impossible to fall of mountains you fool!
Jack Kerouac
#66. Forever and forever and forever
Li Bai
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