Quotes about Bohemian

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner. Votes: 6

As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment. Votes: 6

I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong. Votes: 6

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing. Votes: 5

I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types. Votes: 5

I become obsessed with one thing or one look, a Bohemian look for instance, and then I wear that for a while. Votes: 5

I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness. Votes: 5

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? Votes: 5

I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others. Votes: 5

Art can help a town by attracting a certain Bohemian population that adds life to the bars, character to the streets and a buzz to the name. Employers may then follow. But art can't do much if every town does it. There aren't enough Bohemians. Votes: 5

...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. Votes: 5

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist. Votes: 4

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. Votes: 4

I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were. Votes: 4

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. Votes: 4

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian. Votes: 4

I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment. Votes: 4

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket. Votes: 4

My dad has always been the bohemian... Votes: 3

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative. Votes: 3

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. Votes: 3

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions. Votes: 3

The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time "” it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine. Votes: 3

The Bohemian who tires of life, who gives up by retirement into insamity or suicide, is not necessarily one who had failed in what he wants to express. Votes: 3

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents. Votes: 3

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution. Votes: 3

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles. Votes: 3

Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears. Votes: 3

Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book. Votes: 3

Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary. Votes: 3

Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent. You can read their publications. In the 18th century it perhaps made some sense to conjure up the Illuminati and Masons. Not since. Votes: 3

...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature." Votes: 3

The most abiding memory of visiting Lucian Freud's studio were his eyes, with the gimlet gaze of a Hooded Falcon. But he made for very relaxing company, quick to be amused at the world and his own peccadilloes. He enjoyed the seedy squalor of his rooms in a posh house in the most desirable part of Holland Park, and living up to his persona as an oddball bohemian. Votes: 3

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style. Votes: 1

I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility. Votes: 1

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world. Votes: 1

I used to be frustrated about being called bohemian, but I don't really care now. If that's what you are, you should celebrate it. Votes: 1

I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like to go glamorous. Votes: 1

In the United States, you can put on a cowboy hat and join the country-western neighborhood. If you're down below 14th Street in New York City, that's bohemian; that's left-wing. Votes: 1

I am inspired by the appearance of a bohemian of the new millennium. I thought it was necessary to update the figure of the bohemian, but not in the traditional way. Votes: 1

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't. Votes: 1

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate. Votes: 1

Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids. Votes: 1

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting. Votes: 1

Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman. Votes: 1

A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's changed. It's much more vibrant, bohemian. But I'm 35 and I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow. Votes: 1

When you're choosing furniture for your home that's supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want other people to infer what you want them to infer. What if they see something different? Wouldn't it be really depressing if you're trying to be bohemian and instead they see you as Rush Limbaugh? Votes: 1

Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting. Votes: 1

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music. Votes: 1

She was feeling her bohemian oats. Votes: 0

a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm Votes: 0

Channeling my inner bohemian in a maxi print skirt and textured denim jacket. Votes: 0

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style. Votes: 0

I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime. Votes: 0

My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy. Votes: 0

I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern. Votes: 0

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious. Votes: 0

Channel a bohemian state of mind with an effortless dress paired with a must have embroidered moto jacket. Votes: 0

I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans. Votes: 0

I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk. Votes: 0

Frederick Ward thought novels immoral and had been known to leave the room rather than subject himself to "bohemian" opinions. Votes: 0

I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish Votes: 0

The Gucci woman can be the equestrian woman, the woman in the suit, the woman in the flowy bohemian dress, or the couture woman. Votes: 0

It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order. Votes: 0

We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the '70s and the '80s. Votes: 0

Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all these obnoxious, extroverted, pseudo-bohemian art-school losers Votes: 0

If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn. Votes: 0

I grew up in New York City in Greenwich Village and had parents who were somewhat bohemian so I was always on the nonconformist side of the equation. Votes: 0

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings. Votes: 0

The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly. Votes: 0

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and the hipster was a fact in American life. Votes: 0

Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot. Votes: 0