Quotes About Bohemia

I've always enjoyed the bohemia of Paisley.

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?

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.

About 1369 Wickliffe began to preach the faith in England, and his preaching and writings were the means of the conversion of great numbers, many of whom became excellent preachers; and a work was begun which afterwards spread in England, Hungary, Bohemia, Germany, Switzerland, and many other places. John Huss and Jerom of Prague, preached boldly and successfully in Bohemia, and the adjacent parts.

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.

Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds of hierarchies based on sets of values unrecognised by, and critical of, those of the majority.. They have provided us with persuasive and consoling reminders that there is more than one way of succeeding in life.

Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.

Y el viaje de un vago Oriente por entrevistos barcos, y el grano de oraciones que floreció en blasfemia, y los azoramientos del cisne entre los charcos, y el falso azul nocturno de inquerida bohemia.

John Huss was born at Hussenitz, a village in Bohemia, about the year 1380.

And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman.

Foi assim que um grande escândalo ameaçou o reino da Boêmia, e que os melhores planos de Mr. Sherlock Holmes foram frustrados pela sagacidade de uma mulher. Ele costumava zombar da inteligência das mulheres, mas a partir desse dia nunca mais o vi fazê-lo.

up was the necessary supply chain in case he had to leave Bohemia

Boleslao recuerda vagamente a Julio Antonio, de los años de bohemia, vino y mujeres, cuando él era un contable de doble vida y equilibraba la limpidez de su trabajo con la turbiedad de sus deshoras.

If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.

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.

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.

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.

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

In England, we'd leave school at 15 and go on to a college, and I went to further education in a town called Welling Garden City. I fully immersed myself in bohemia there, which included poetry and modern art, jazz, philosophy, social radicalism.

That's the way it was in New York City in the early Seventies, all the artists hung out together.

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.

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

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

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.