Category: Quotes

  • 10 top quotes by charles baudelaire

    10 top quotes by charles baudelaire

    10 top quotes by charles baudelaire

    • One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
    • Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
    • A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
    • What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
    • There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.
    • Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
    • What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
    • The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.
    • I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
    • He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.
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  • 10 famous sophocles quotes on life

    10 famous sophocles quotes on life

    10 famous sophocles quotes on life

    • One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
    • All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
    • The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
    • One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
    • Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
    • If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
    • A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
    • How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be When there’s no help in truth.
    • Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise! This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else I would not have come here.
    • Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
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  • 10 notable quotes by philip larkin

    10 notable quotes by philip larkin

    10 notable quotes by philip larkin

    • Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.
    • So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago.
    • How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It’s sad, really.
    • I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you’re an artist, by children if you’re not.
    • I can’t understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It’s like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
    • Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.
    • I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It’s very strange how often strong feelings don’t seem to carry any message of action.
    • Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.
    • Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.
    • Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
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  • 10 quotes by dorothy parker

    10 quotes by dorothy parker

    10 quotes by dorothy parker

    • Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
    • The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
    • Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.
    • Hollywood money isn’t money. It’s congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.
    • I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
    • What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
    • Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.
    • The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.
    • There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
    • This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn’t touch a superlative again with an umbrella.
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  • 10 thought-provoking quotes by johnny carson

    10 thought-provoking quotes by johnny carson

    10 thought-provoking quotes by johnny carson

    • Find me any performer anywhere who isn’t egocentric. You’d better believe you’re good, or you’ve got no business being out there.
    • Everybody I meet in public seems to want to audition for me. If I ask a guy what time it is, he’ll sing it to me.
    • Entertainment is like any other major industry; it’s cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you’re in, you’re made; if you can’t, you’re out.
    • Egyptian President Sadat had a belly dancer entertain President Nixon at a state dinner. Mr. Nixon was really impressed. He hadn’t seen contortions like that since Rose Mary Woods.
    • Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.
    • Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?
    • Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn’t grow up can be vice president.
    • Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and giving them something to hold onto. Usually a mop or a leaf blower.
    • Democracy is buying a big house you can’t afford with money you don’t have to impress people you wish were dead.
    • Believe me, you don’t walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.
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  • 10 most famous quotes by ian fleming

    10 most famous quotes by ian fleming

    10 most famous quotes by ian fleming

    • Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.
    • You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face
    • People are islands,’ she said. ‘They don’t really touch. However close they are, they’re really quite separate. Even if they’ve been married for fifty years.
    • Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action’.
    • Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.
    • Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
    • Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.
    • All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.
    • Before a man’s forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it’s the story that hurts most. Anyway I’m not forty yet.
    • Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond’s natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
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  • 10 enlightening quotes by carl sagan

    10 enlightening quotes by carl sagan

    10 enlightening quotes by carl sagan

    • Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.
    • The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.
    • Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
    • One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
    • If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
    • For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
    • Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
    • Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.
    • The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.
    • I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.
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  • 10 inspirational quotes by leo tolstoy

    10 inspirational quotes by leo tolstoy

    10 inspirational quotes by leo tolstoy

    • Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
    • All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
    • It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
    • He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
    • Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
    • We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
    • When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
    • I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.
    • A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
    • Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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  • 10 top david duchovny quotes

    10 top david duchovny quotes

    10 top david duchovny quotes

    • Feelings come and go, unless you don’t feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.
    • You can’t just wear the food chain around your neck like a bauble or necklace. You’re part of it and if you keep treating it with disdain, that chain will strangle you.
    • Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.
    • Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.
    • I’ve never seen a wild almond or a soy galloping about in its natural habitat, but cow milk is the best.
    • You think plants don’t have feelings? Maybe not the type of feelings you and I have, but they do have planty feelings, really slow feelings that unfold or blossom over years rather than seconds.
    • It’s hard to leave anywhere. Even if the place sucked. It’s hard to leave anywhere at all.
    • I’m constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It’s unfiltered and completely inspiring.
    • My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it’s like catching lightning in a bottle. It’s the best part of what we do.
    • I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you’re wonderful every time you do something; I think that’s human nature.
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  • 10 life altering kurt vonnegut quotes

    10 life altering kurt vonnegut quotes

    10 life altering kurt vonnegut quotes

    • We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
    • I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
    • We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
    • Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
    • And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
    • Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.
    • And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
    • The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
    • Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
    • Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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