Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

Charles Baudelaire

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• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Son
  • Bass
  • Drums

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Green

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Clear
  • Voting

• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

  

  Saint Basil
  • Long
  • May
  • Fear

• I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Conflict
  • Unhappy

• Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • American
  • Name

• A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Past
  • Experiences
  • Pull

• In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

  

  Barbara Block
  • People
  • Want
  • Sharks

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • American
  • Know
  • Management

• It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Learn
  • Story
  • Conservative

• I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trust
  • Wrong
  • Instincts

• I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• I had gross morning sickness til about 15 weeks and then gestational diabetes, and most annoyingly, from about week 20, I had pelvis issues, which saw me on crutches for the last five weeks of the pregnancy and has since developed into full-blown Osteitis Pubis and pelvic instability.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Me
  • Morning
  • Pregnancy

• I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Believe
  • City

• With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.

  

  Butch Trucks
  • Great
  • Live
  • Band

• The common error of us all in late Impressionism was to search above all for the light. It would have been better first to search for the Kingdom of God and his justice, that is to say for the expression of our spirit in beauty, and the rest would have arrived naturally.

  

  Maurice Denis
  • God
  • Light
  • Rest

• Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Reality
  • Professional

• I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry.

  

  David Milch

• Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • True
  • Reality
  • Earth