J Quotes
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“Jean Louise, when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stove wood, or a citizens' council.”
“Jean loved silent movies becaues they were like cartoons. I think that he felt that even in life we should be walking around with a word-blloon above our heads -- you can see this in his art.
He always kept watch for any black characters but, or course, they only appeared as servants, if at all.”
Source: Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
“Jean-Marc ergueu-se para ir buscar a garrafa de conhaque e dois copos. E, depois, de uma golada: - No fim da minha visita ao hospital, ele começou a contar recordações. Recordou-me aquilo que eu teria dito quando tinha dezasseis anos. Nesse momento compreendi o único sentido da amizade tal como hoje é praticada. A amizade é indispensável ao homem para o bom funcionamento da sua memória. Lembrar-se do passado, trazê-lo sempre consigo, é talvez a condição necessária para conservar, como se costuma dizer, a integridade do eu. Pare o eu não encolha, para que mantenha o seu volume, é preciso regar as recordações como as flores de uma vaso, e essa rega exige um contacto regular com testemunhas do passado, isto é, com amigos. Eles são o nosso espelho, a nossa memória; não se exige anda deles, apenas que de vez em quando puxem o lustro a esse espelho para que nos possamos mirar nele. Mas estou –me nas tintas para o que fazia no liceu! O que sempre desejei desde a primeira juventude, talvez desde a infância, foi algo completamente diferente: a amizade como um valor acima de todos os outros. Gostava de dizer: entre a verdade e o amigo, escolho sempre o amigo. Dizia-o por provocação, mas pensava-o a sério. Hoje sei que essa máxima era arcaica. Podia ser válida para Aquiles, o amigo de Pátroclo, para os mosqueteiros de Alexandre Dumas, até ao Sancho, que apesar dos desacordos era um verdadeiro amigo do seu amo. Mas já não o é para nós. Vou tão no meu pessimismo que hoje posso preferir a verdade à amizade.”
Source: Identity
“Jean-Michel is full of fears, especially when he is all coked up. He is afraid that he will be a flash in the pan. He is afraid that the KKK is going to kill him because he is getting so famous and he is black. He installs an elaborate alarm system in the loft. He thinks the CIA is going to murder him.”
Source: Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
“Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.”
“Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!”
“Jean Paul Sartre şöyle der: ‘Cehennem, başkalarıdır!” Bu cümleyi tamamlamak adına şunu da söylemeliyiz: Cennet de başkalarıdır”
“Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)
“Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.”
Source: Peter Greenaway: Interviews
“Jean-Rose told me today that someday my social cache will be built upon how few wrinkles I have on my face. She gave me a bar of Pears glycerin soap to wash my face with, prescribed ice-water plunges to keep my skin firm, and handed me a jar of Pond's Cold Cream to apply before bed each night.”
Source: Summer Darlings
“Jean's death shouts out to me that I matter, Jean mattered, our relationship mattered.”
“Jean's desires, like those of all men in love, were concentrated on the impossible.”
Source: Jean Santeuil
“Jean smirked and raised an eyebrow at Leor. “Would you like to fly through the Louvre?”
Leor couldn’t perceive how that would even be possible. But Jean would inevitably find a way. “No, no!” Leor ardently replied. “Let’s just land there and take a walk. Look at some statues, get some air.”
“Ah, but do we not have plenty of air, flowing around up here in the skies?” Jean asked, diving down towards the Seine, and then sharply pulling up along one of the slopes.
“Would you like me to vomit again?” Leor asked, with a hand near his mouth.”
“Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.”
“Jean Todt's system will never succeed, not even with Michael Schumacher.”
“Jean told me that Madonna had been there to visit him the week before I came. Madonna, he said, had asked him to take her on a shopping spree. He asked me why I never asked him to do this and I answered that it never occurred to me to ask him for such a thing.
Then I said, "Will you take me on a shopping spree?"
And he said, "No, I'm completely broke from Madonna's shopping spree.”
Source: Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
“Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.”
“Jean Valjean, mon frère, vous n'appartenez plus au mal, mais au bien. C'est votre âme que je vous achète; je la retire aux pensées noires et à l'esprit de perdition, et je la donne à Dieu.”
“Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It is your soul I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!”
“Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.”
Source: The Scent of Water
“Jean wondered how it might be to go out into the night and howl for sex. The clarity of purpose was appealing. No games.”
Source: Happiness
“Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.”
“Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".”
“Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. "After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind.”
“Jean-Luc Godard said that cinema is the truth 24 frames a second. I think cinema is lies 24 frames a second.”
“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.”
“Jean-Paul Sartre said that France was freer than ever during the German occupation, when people had no choices but one: to collaborate or to resist. I'm not saying there was something good about that system. But the freest people I've ever met, or knew about, belonged to that period. For example, Musine Kokalari, an Albanian writer who dared to fight for political pluralism and free elections. She created the first social democratic party, despite knowing the high price she would have to pay.”
“Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.”
“Jeanie Deans, to our thinking, is the cream and perfection of Scott's work. She is tenfold more, because in all ordinary circumstances she would be much less interesting to us than a score of beautiful Rowenas, than even Flora or Rebecca. She is a piece of actual fact, real as the gentle landscape in which she is first enclosed, true to her kine that browse upon the slope - and yet she is the highest ideal that Scott has ever attained. A creature absolutely pure, absolutely truthful, yet of a tenderness, a forbearance, and long-suffering beyond the power of man, willing to die rather than lie.”
“Jeanie's finger hovered over the kissy winky emoji. Nope. Too far. She would quit while she was ahead.”
Source: The Pumpkin Spice Café
“Jeanie waved over Logan's shoulder to The Pumpkin Spice Café customers, who had already gone back to sipping their drinks and chatting about the weather, as though declarations of love happened in the middle of their morning coffee every day.”
Source: The Pumpkin Spice Café
“Jeanine claims you're all dangerous Insurgents.”
“Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.”
“Jeanne, I fell asleep among the paintings, where I could sit for many days worshipping your portrait. I fell in love with your portrait, Jeanne, because it will never change. I have such a fear of seeing you grow old, Jeanne, I fell in love with an unchanging you that will never be taken away from me. I was wishing you would die, so that no one could take you away from me, and I would love the painting of you as you would look eternally.”
“Jeannot la bêtise des amoureux est immense, végétale, animale, astrale. Que faire? Comment te faire comprendre que je n'existe plus en dehors de toi.”
Source: Lettres à Jean Marais
“Jeannot offers me heroin. I’m tempted. Not because I want to forget what I’ve done, or because I’m so down, even though both are true, but because I’ve lost my identity. I haven’t a clue who I am. I feel like a nothing. But I know without a doubt, if I take heroin now, I will destroy the tiny morsel of myself that is left, I will be lost forever. (Funny how heroin comes along at times like this. These guys can smell your weakness, like sharks smell blood.) I muster all my strength and say no.”
Source: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
“Jeans have become this neutral foundational garment. If you want to show you are relaxed, if you want to be relaxed, you wear jeans.”
“Jeans represent democracy in fashion.”
“Jeb and I spoke different love languages.”
“Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'”
“Jeb Bush announced today on the Internet that he may run for president. The next presidential election could be Bush vs. Clinton. It will be like 1992 all over again except I won't be in rehab.”
“Jeb Bush cheated on his diet and had a fried Snickers bar, pork on a stick, and a beer. Jeb Bush said he ate it so at least he could see some of his numbers go up.”
“Jeb Bush gave a speech yesterday. He had a pretty rough time. He accidentally said that ISIS has 200,000 men instead of 20,000, and then he mispronounced the name of the terrorist group Boko Haram. So if history has taught us anything, Jeb is well on his way to winning the White House.”
“Jeb Bush has being slammed by his own party for a very messy response to questions about his brother's war in Iraq. He should have been ready for this one.”
“Jeb Bush has to distance himself from what they call the Bush brand. So he keeps saying, 'I am my own man.' But when Governor Chris Christie is out on the campaign trail, he's always saying, 'I'm my own man, plus another guy.'”
“Jeb Bush is conservative governor,his record as governor is more conservative than any current republican governor in the country.”
“Jeb Bush is facing criticism after it was just revealed that he checked off his race as 'Hispanic' on a voter registration form back in 2009. When asked if he regrets it now, Bush said, 'Si.'”
“Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.'”
“Jeb Bush is my friend. I think he'd make a great president. I've nudged him for some time.”
“Jeb Bush is the new John Connelly.”