Charles Baudelaire Quotes

If rape and poison, dagger and burning, have still not embroidered their pleasant designs on the banal canvas of our pitiable destinies, it’s because our souls, alas, are not bold enough!

Charles Baudelaire

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• It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

  

  Mae West
  • Look
  • Say
  • How

• I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Like
  • Never
  • River

• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Body
  • Window
  • Throw

• I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Death
  • You
  • Imagine

• When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Alien

• If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Successful
  • Drug
  • Year

• My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Player
  • Goal
  • Same

• It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Know
  • Problem
  • Yes

• I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Myself

• I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy

• But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • American
  • Party

• Deserve your dream.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Dream
  • Motivational
  • Deserve

• I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Proud
  • Pleasure
  • Fact

• The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Growth

• And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sad
  • Purple

• In response to 4 Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Good
  • Job

• I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

  

  Neil Innes

• When I was unemployed, I hosted lots of dinner parties. Now I have time to make a pot of soup for the week - if I'm lucky!

  

  Lela Loren
  • Time

• For me, Paul Simon has always been an incredible songwriter, as he writes very complicated songs that sound very simple, and he makes it look so easy when it's not.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • Simple

• Positive general principles need always to be supplemented by negative, anecdotal censors. For, it hardly ever pays to alter a general mechanism to correct a particular bug.

  

  Marvin Minsky
  • Positive

• If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Enemy
  • Stage
  • Grace

• When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

  

  Henry James Sumner Maine
  • Development
  • Code
  • Spontaneous

• Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Courage

• If rape and poison, dagger and burning, have still not embroidered their pleasant designs on the banal canvas of our pitiable destinies, it’s because our souls, alas, are not bold enough!

  

  Charles Baudelaire
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