Can > Can's Quotes

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Çağımızda geçmiş yüzyılların bilmediği, kısa ömürlü bir yaratık yaşıyor. Sinemadan çıkmış insan. Gördüğü film ona bir şeyler yapmış. Salt çıkarını düşünen kişi değil. İnsanlarla barışık. Onun büyük işler yapacağı umulur. Ama beş-on dakikada ölüyor. Sokak sinemadan çıkmayanlarla dolu; asık yüzleri, kayıtsızlıkları, sinsi yürüyüşleriyle onu aralarına alıyorlar, eritiyorlar.”
― Yusuf Atılgan, Aylak Adam

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a fucking actor! They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment. Basically, when you whittle everything away, I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.”
― Brad Pitt

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Apartmanın girişindeki lambayı sen mi kırdın Bülent?”
“Hangisini?”
“Otomatik yanan, sensörlü lamba.”
“Hayır.”
“Komşu görmüş, yalan söyleme. Süpürge sapıyla kırmışsın dün gece.”
Önüme baktım.
“Neden kırdın?”
Cevap yok.
“Hasta mısın evladım? Söyle bana, neyin var, neden kırdın lambayı, yapma böyle…”
“Kırdımsa kırdım, ne olacak! Çok mu değerliymiş?”
“Lamba senden değerli mi evladım, lambanın amına koyayım, lamba kim? Yöneticiye de dedim. Lambanızı sikeyim, kaç paraysa veririz. Sen değerlisin benim için.”
“Beni görünce yanmıyordu baba.”
“Nasıl ya?”
“Görmezden geliyordu, yanmıyordu. Kaç sefer yok saydı beni.”
“E beni görünce de yanmıyordu bazen, böyle el sallayacaksın havaya doğru, o zaman yanıyor.”
“Hadi ya! Sahiden mi?”
“Evet. Ucuzundan takmışlar. Bizimle bir alakası yok.”
Babama sarıldım yıllar sonra.”
― Emrah Serbes, Erken Kaybedenler

“all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.”
― richard brautigan

“Whoever controls the media, the
images, controls the culture.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.”
― Allen Ginsberg

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
― George Carlin

“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
― George Carlin

“Life gets really simple once you cut out all the bull shit they teach you in school.”
― George Carlin

“How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion, and when it’s a chicken, it’s an omelette?”
― George Carlin

“Some people have no idea what they're doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.”
― George Carlin

“I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.”
― George Carlin

“I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.”
― George Carlin

“I have lots of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck. ”
― George Carlin

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative”
― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

“Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?”
― Pink Floyd

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“Sure, in a ninja's world, those who violate the rules and fail to follow orders...are lower than garbage. However...those who do not care for and support their fellows...are even lower than that!" - Obito Uchiha”
― Masashi Kishimoto, Naruto, Vol. 27: Departure

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.”
― Bill Hicks

“There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

“I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country … how are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?”
― Bill Hicks