Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

Charles Baudelaire

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• The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Long
  • May
  • Age

• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Belief
  • Strength

• I first read Heinlein when I was very young.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Young
  • First
  • Very

• I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Dad

• TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Place
  • Most
  • Still

• You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Party

• I'd love to return to theater.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Return

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

  

  T-Pain
  • Car
  • Made
  • Radio

• What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Always
  • Write
  • Some

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Feel
  • Kid
  • Relaxed

• And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • World
  • Good
  • Words

• I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Know
  • Humanity

• Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Women
  • Truth

• When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Training

• I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • Country

• Sometimes when I'm on set, I keep eating, and people are like, 'You really eat that?' I'm like, 'Yes, I do.'

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Eating

• I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better.

  

  Jean Nidetch
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Girl

• To me, great advertising can make food taste better, can make your car run smoother. It can change your perception of something. Is it wrong to change your perception about something? Of course not. I'm not lying; I'm just saying, 'This one's more fun, this one's more exciting.'

  

  George Lois
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Food

• I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.

  

  John Leguizamo
  • Time

• Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Food
  • Poetry