"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed." ― Charles Baudelaire Topic(s): Change More From Charles Baudelaire "God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn’t even need to exist." "To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts." "Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?" More In Change "I wasn’t a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn’t written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor."― Madeleine Albright "Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there – there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood."― Dee Dee Myers "I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better."― Plutarch