Charles Baudelaire Quotes

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Charles Baudelaire

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Act
  • Crisis
  • Recovery

• I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Taken
  • Photography
  • Modeling

• I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Think
  • Positive
  • Cope

• I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Happy
  • Small

• I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Believe
  • Love
  • End

• Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Truth
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Important
  • Earth
  • Inspired

• Good evening, ladies and gentleman. My name is Orson Welles. I am an actor. I am a writer. I am a producer. I am a director. I am a magician. I appear onstage and on the radio. Why are there so many of me and so few of you?

  

  Orson Welles
  • Actor
  • Writer
  • Director

• I didn't want to be an accountant; I found myself being a banker, which was a bit different. I went to university, and I was going to do a Ph.D. in the States, but I didn't get the funding for it, so I had two years where I had a bit of a wobble and didn't really know what I wanted to do, and I ended up working as a banker.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Want

• There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Powerful
  • Marriage
  • Tools

• What agent is there other than the Creator of the heavens and earth who can know whatever occurs in our heart, down to its most subtle and secret thoughts, and illuminate the future for us by establishing the Hereafter, saving us from the countless suffocating waves of the world?

  

  Said Nursi
  • World
  • Heart
  • Future

• I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

  

  Taliesin
  • Been
  • Shapes
  • Consistent

• People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • People
  • Music
  • Experience

• My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Movie
  • Black
  • City

• When he loved his bride it was not a queen he loved, but rather the girl as she might have been if she had not been destroyed in her childhood.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Girl
  • Childhood

• Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature

• 'Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • History
  • Today
  • Rest

• I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed at that. That's not the way most entertainment is made. Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Trying
  • Done

• You will not have any moment of silence.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Silence
  • Moment

• I can remember when I first got to los Angeles . I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money. I was walking the streets, you know, trying to get from place to place on foot almost. Sometimes, you know, you say, how am I ever going to get from here to there? There are a lot of people still having that dream and not being able to get there. So you never know. The idea is to keep on tap dancing, though.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Money
  • Car
  • Los Angeles

• It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure

  

  Aaron Betsky
  • Law
  • Structure
  • Syntax

• I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

  

  Charles Baudelaire