Top 424 Jean Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Jean-Paul Sartre, the existentialist philosopher who celebrated the anguish of decision as a hallmark of responsibility, has no place in Silicon Valley.

I turned down 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brody' with Maggie Smith. I think she got the Academy Award.

The cinema is - in Jean Cocteau’s famous words - ‘a dream that can be dreamt by many people at the same time’.

Isn't that what you really want in a jean? The ability to kick people in the face in them? I don't wanna have to go home and change into shorts.

There are moments in your life where you're like I have arrived. I'm here and I'm living and I'm present. And working with Jean Paul Gaultier was one of them.

You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita

How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.

In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important.

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull and Jean Béliveau probably looked at us in the '80s and said, "These guys are soft. We used to take the train."

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

Jean Paul Gaultier is not only immensely talented but also a genuinely sweet and kind person.

I said last week that the number on Jean's back does not matter. He stays effective as a runner, decision-maker and leader.

I have no formal proof, but I dare not believe that Jean-Marie Le Pen would treat me as collateral damage in the battle he is having with the party.

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.

Ever since reading Jean Plaidy's 'Queen in Waiting,' I've felt deep admiration for Caroline of Ansbach.

There [Haiti] were also leaders like Jean-Jacques Dessalines, whose motto was, "Cut their heads off, burn their houses."

Just a lot of those bands [like The Blue Jean Committee] started off in blues, and then they all transformed into other kinds.

I used to listen to my music on the bus. It was one of my favourite things, to look out the window and over at the Jacques Cartier Bridge and Parc Jean-Drapeau.

I think my peak 90s moment was posing on a Harley-Davidson outside the Met Bar with Wyclef Jean.

The most exciting match I ever played was the 1974 US Open final against Billie Jean King.

My personal style depends on what I'm doing or where I am. I wear a lot of jeans and jean shorts and t-shirts, and I love leather jackets; it's pretty relaxed.

Jean Grey, the Phoenix... she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

I was lucky enough to meet and marry Jean-Luc who is responsible for any education and culture I have today.

Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

It was not appropriate for me to wear anything like a bustier or to be sexy. It was big hair and hoop earrings and jean jackets.

I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.

It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame.

You get all these French directors who have all these pretty, vacuous stars of their movies - from Jean Seberg on - who have become iconic but were never really good actors.

I can pretty much say that because of Bruce Lee and Jean-Claude Van Damme, that's why I do what I do today.

I did a rendition of Billie Jean which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.

A classic fishtail parka, anorak, mackintosh, windbreaker, pea coat, or jean jacket will get you through every season.

I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.

Ali reversed the decision in a second fight with Joe Frazier. That's what would happen if I played Billie Jean again.

I like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there are different lakes.

Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number of parties running in the French national elections that year in the spring of 2002. But it ended up being not just a shock across France, and not just a shock across Europe. But it ended up being almost a worldwide shock when in the spring of 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen came in second in those national elections. That put him in a two-man runoff for the presidency of France, spring of 2002.

I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.

I was always the girl who wore the mismatching socks, frizzy hair, ponytail I wouldn't take out for a week, and cutoff jean shorts that were at my knees.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

I grew up on '80s action movies... Jean Claude Van Damme, Schwarzenegger, Stallone... If there were ever some opportunity to do that, it'd be great.

If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.

When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little since because the first impressions were so powerful they have stayed with me.

Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.

Jean Thompson's short-story collection 'Who Do You Love' is a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one.

I watched a lot of Jean-Claude Van Damme films and loved his film 'Bloodsport.'

I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.

I always try to emulate those I admire. Pamela Harriman, Coco Chanel, Wallis Simpson, Jean Harlow, Diana Vreeland.

It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do a film that is as extraordinary as Goodbye to Language.

I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired.

One thing I love most about New York is the variety of amazing foods you can eat. My all-time favorite is the Chicken Parmigianino at Jean Georges.

My mom used to call me a 'jean hoarder' growing up because I had so many pairs of jeans - and I still do.

I used to be an angry man myself. I’m a recovering assaholic so I could recognize that in Steve. (quoting Jean-Louis Gassée)

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs, sea shanties, and English folklore.

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

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

The action heroes were very cool as a kid. You would compare yourself with them - Jean-Claude Van Damme and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.

I love to just throw on a leather jacket with jean shorts and a T-shirt, or I'll pair a menswear-inspired blazer with jeans for a casual but chic look.