Bums Quote by Jack Kerouac

Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all…

— Jack Kerouac

“Sheila miała własną walizkę i my ze Slimem też i poszliśmy na przystanek i kupiliśmy Sheili bilet i zaczekaliśmy z nią na autobus. Ale…

— Jack Kerouac

“And the Buddha pointed out that his confusion was justified, for 'the dharma is profound, difficult to see, difficult to understand, peaceful, excellent, beyond…

— David J. Kalupahana

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

— Jack Kerouac

“Why is he so mad about white tiled sinks and ‘kitchen machinery’ he calls it? People have good hearts whether or not they live…

— Jack Kerouac

“Everything was everlastingly loose and responsive, it was all everywhere beyond the truth, beyond emptyspace blue. "The mountains are mighty patient, Buddha-man," I said…

— Jack Kerouac

“The honky-tonk bartender, who doubled as bouncer, waiter, and cashier, was in no mood to compromise. Mercy was not in him. He came out…

— Cornell Woolrich

Biscuit eaters never leave any crumbs, that is why they have bigger bums!..

— Melchor Lim

“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

'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.

— Orson Welles

I don't want to be that guy on some set he doesn't want to be on. It just bums everybody out.

— Luke Grimes

“You wonder what had happened, when a feller like that, in a place like that, talked of a childhood that might have as easily…

— T.D. Badyna