Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté, l'enfance douée maintenant, pour s'exprimer, d'organes virils et de l'esprit analytique qui lui permet d'ordonner la somme de matériaux involontairement amassée.

Charles Baudelaire

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• The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Try

• I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Children
  • Family
  • Think

• English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Live
  • Free

• Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Best

• I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Live
  • Done
  • Know

• Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • New
  • Year

• Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

  

  Sam Harris
  • Science
  • Questions
  • Limit

• I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Same

• I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Important
  • Game
  • Want

• I have never gotten my nails done.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Done
  • Never
  • Nails

• It's not the average people that come to my show.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Show
  • Average

• I just love to see people having a good time.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Work
  • Pain
  • Easy

• My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Business
  • Future
  • Comedy

• I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Serious

• I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Way
  • Regret
  • Act

• There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.

  

  Eric Jerome Dickey
  • I Wish
  • Met

• God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

  

  Joe Cocker
  • God
  • Guy
  • Singing

• One reason we stop praying or let our prayer lives fade is that we are too comfortable.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Stop
  • Prayer

• Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté, l'enfance douée maintenant, pour s'exprimer, d'organes virils et de l'esprit analytique qui lui permet d'ordonner la somme de matériaux involontairement amassée.

  

  Charles Baudelaire