Charles Baudelaire Quotes

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

Charles Baudelaire

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867

Topics

NatureUglyMeNothingUseless

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Jerry Seinfeld

PeopleThinkYouFortyStageBegin

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.

John Cornyn

RainsLiterallyFiguratively

I've just been fortunate to havehad a lot of hit records, though Human Wheels doesn't qualify as a hit record-but it's really the best single I've ever had.

John Mellencamp

BestHumanSingleWheelsFortunate

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Angela Davis

DangerousZooHumanBreakPopulation

I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that.

Ann Leckie

ArtMyselfFoodPeopleStrong

NFL fans have less sympathy for fallen players than the Romans had for blind Christians.

Stephen Rodrick

SympathyBlindFansNFLPlayers

There's a great op-ed piece by Kurt Johnson, who runs The List Project, that I recommend everyone read. He was talking about how he's been trying to get out of Iraq who were our allies, who are now subject to torture, and their families are being killed because of their alliance to the United States.

Rory Kennedy

GreatTalkingTryingNowProject

I want to be cutting-edge.

Missy Elliott

WantCutting-Edge

Everything happens for a reason, so you shouldn't get wound up.

Mo Farah

YouReasonEverythingUpGetWound

The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it's asking me to draw on everything I've been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience.

Jason Bateman

ExperienceMeActingOverAsking

I almost failed one drama course. All the actors talked in phony accents. It shocked me. I went out for track instead.

Jason Robards

MeDramaOutTrackPhonyAlmost

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

Dennis Prager

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