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Quotes About Charles

Sometimes you make a mistake, taking the wrong poem more often I make the mistake, writing it.
~ Charles Bukowski
I have seen dogs with more style than men, although not many dogs have style. Cats have it with abundance.
~ Charles Bukowski
MR. JONSTONE IS A FINE MAN! Don't be silly. He's an obvious sadist, I said.
~ Charles Bukowski
NOTHING. it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.
~ Charles Bukowski
Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn't let me.
~ Charles Bukowski
I don't write out of knowledge. When the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this. That's why my number's listed.
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.
~ Charles Bukowski
also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can't understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.
~ Charles Bukowski
are you paranoid?" he asks. "of course. what sane man is not?
~ Charles Bukowski
Charles's army disintegrated as it fled, shedding companies of venereal soldiers along the way. A more effective means for spreading syphilis over a large area is hard to imagine. Within a year cities throughout Europe were banishing people afflicted with the disease.
~ Charles C. Mann
except for llamas in the Andes, the Western Hemisphere had no beasts of burden.
~ Charles C. Mann
Without any apparent volition by Cortés, the great city lost at least a third of its population to the epidemic, including Cuitlahuac.
~ Charles C. Mann
Drought indeed stressed the system, but the societal disintegration in the south was due not to surpassing inherent ecological limits but the political failure to find solutions.
~ Charles C. Mann
They keep it carefully tended and gaily decked, and esteem it as highly as ladies in Europa.
~ Charles C. Mann
As long as you could fall farther you distinguished yourself from the fallen. Loss reinstated possibility, but possibility without hope. And perhaps this explains how all of us blithely
~ Charles D'Ambrosio
Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather.
~ Charles Darwin
I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.
~ Charles Darwin
Her need to shape memory into history.
~ Charles Frazier
For Nature, which has peopled the land with rational souls, may not have left the sea altogether barren of them
~ Charles Kingsley
I don't envy the mule his labyrinthine inlets, those indispensable side-intelligencers.
~ Charles Lamb
Yes," Christopher said. " 'He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire
~ Charles McCarry
let slip the yapping chihuahuas of infowar
~ Charles Stross
In his house," intoned the congregation, "He shall return, that dead lies dreaming.
~ Charles Stross
But you're more at home with SQL than socialization: Innuendo wasn't a language they taught in CS lab.
~ Charles Stross