Jean Borella Quotes

A divine revelation should not consist only in uprooting us from the world's profanity in order to install us statically within a sacred world, in the bosom of which we could continue to lead almost the same life we led in the profane world. To enter into revelation is not merely to change objects as we do furniture. It is to be converted. Not to be converted once, but to be converted always. Sacred forms, rites, symbols and the Scriptures are basically conversion-makers, which means that we are never done with converting, never done with understanding, because they perplex and surpass all understanding. ~ Jean Borella

It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself. ~ Jean Baudrillard

Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood. ~ Jean Baudrillard

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. ~ Jean-Luc Godard

A happy love is full of quarrels, you know. ~ Jean Anouilh

Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us! ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy ... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that. ~ Wyclef Jean

The cinema is death at work. ~ Jean Cocteau

I was delighted to hear that a number of people returned to see Orphée (as much as five or six times), to the amazement of the managements. This is significant, for the cinema is usually regarded as a place where one drops in for a little entertainment as one would for a glass of beer.
This is why film societies, those Courts of Appeal, have so important a part to play, and why they deserve all the support we can give them. This is why I accepted nomination as President of the fédération des Cinéclubs. But, alas, even film societies are sometimes unable to retrieve old films, which the industrial squall sweeps away in order to clear a space for new ones. We had imagined that great actresses like Greta Garbo would be granted the privilege which was denied to a Rachel or a Sarah Bernhardt. But we were wrong. Today it is impossible to show Garbo in The lady of the Camelias for instance, to the young people who could not see the film when it came out, for all the copies have been meticulously destroyed. The lady of the Camelias is to be remade with new stars and new methods, using all the latest technical inventions, colour, three dimensions, and what not. It is a real disaster. Mrs B., the head of the new York Film Library, finds herself confronted with the same difficulties as Langlois of the Cinémathèque française whenever she endeavours to save a film from oblivion. She finds that she cannot obtain a single copy. Chaplin alone escapes that terrible destruction, because h ~ Jean Cocteau

Once Right has taken hold of a man exorcism cannot drive it out. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

the emancipation of women is a freedom worth fighting for ~ Jean Sasson

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low. ~ Emilio Azcarraga Jean

The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. ~ Jean Baudrillard

Jean-Claude said. I stared at him, and for the first ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme. ~ Chris Daughtry

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State. ~ Jean Monnet

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. ~ Jean Baudrillard

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk. ~ Jean-Marie Messier

Every child, every person needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self-images be transformed. ~ Jean Vanier

I am the only real truth I know. ~ Jean Rhys

Have and the have nots. Why do people say that, it's stupid? I think it should be the gets and the get nots; that makes more sense. ~ James Jean-Pierre

Violence is the sign of temporary weakness. ~ Jean Jaures

If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever. ~ Jean-Martin Charcot

His dark blue shirt was plastered to his chest, covered with werewolf goop and tears. "Now we both need a bath," I said.
"That can be arranged."
"Please, Jean-Claude, no sexual innuendo until after I'm clean."
"Of course, MA PETITE. It was crude of me tonight. My apologies."
I stared at him. He was being far too nice. Jean-Claude was a lot of things, but nice wasn't one of them.
"If you're up to something, I don't want to know about it. I can't handle any deep, dark plots tonight, okay?"
He smiled and gave a low, sweeping bow, never taking his eyes off me. The way you bow on the judo mat when you're afraid the person may pound you if you look away.
I shook my head. He WAS up to something. Nice to know that not everyone had suddenly become something else. One thing I could always depend on what Jean-Claude. Pain in the ass that he was, he always seemed to be there. Dependable in his own twisted way. Jean-Claude dependable? I must have been more tired than I thought. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another. ~ Jean Cocteau

SAMO as an end to to mindwash religion, nowhere politics and bogus philosophy. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone. ~ Victor Hugo

The most joyful thing I know is the peace, the silence that one enjoys in the woods or on the tilled lands. ~ Jean-Francois Millet

When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner. ~ Jean Alesi

In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world. ~ Jean-Claude Duvalier

...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... Confronted with objects that are too big according to their magnitude or too
violent according to their power, the mind experiences its own limitations. ~ Jean Francois Lyotard

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires. ~ Jean Rostand

I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal. ~ Jean Paul Gaultier

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks. ~ Jean Helion

My father's really fluent in French, but I can't speak at all. I actually took it twice in school already and failed both times! ~ Jean-Luc Bilodeau

I haven't given up me and I get to be a big part of my girls' lives. It's an amazing feeling that what I put into my business, I get out of it.- Jennifer Saint Jean, Itty Bitty Bag Company ~ Holly Hurd

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped! ~ Pierre Cardin

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

My two essential ingredients are chilies, any kind, dried or fresh; and acid, whether it's citrus - lemon, lime, yuzu - or vinegars. Food has to pop. ~ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Music that paints nothing is only noise. ~ Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Life begins on the other side of despair. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre