A Jailbird Quotes

#1. She [Mme Sazerat] did not offer her hand, but smiled at my mother with vague melancholy as one smiles at a playmate from one's childhood, but with whom all connection has been severed because she has lived a debauched life, married a jailbird or, worse still, a divorced man.

Marcel Proust

#2. Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

Albert Camus

#3. You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed - so you were a good man just the same.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

Britney Spears

#6. What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. Number 47 said to number 3, you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see.

Elvis Presley

#8. Let wheel to flow on your body
Tonight I'll be little more rowdy.
Below to lower lips,
Feel ache in hips.

Tonight you will be my jailbird,
So don't behave like nerd.
Tonight I'll make you my follower
By moving this wheel all over.

Delicious David

#9. I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And he doesn't want to know, because there's a little bit of death in that.

Stephen Gaghan

#10. The black church will accept anybody.

James McBride

#11. Afternoon with Michel, sorting maman's belongings.
Began the day by looking at her photographs.
A cruel mourning begins again (but had never ended).
To begin again without resting. Sisyphus.

Roland Barthes

#12. Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

Wendell Phillips

#13. Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

Dennis Haysbert

#14. Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me.

Chris Prentiss

#15. And for the first time in his life, he smiled thinking about the always-coming infinite future stretching out before him.

John Green

#16. There is no such thing as a Bollywood hero or Hollywood hero. All you see on the screen is the lead actor's interpretation of the role that has been conceived by the writer.

Dhanush

#17. Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ... but because of your love.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#18. I've only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel.

Roman Payne

#19. The economy is a thoughtless weather system- and nothing more. Some joke on the people, to give them such a thing

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [ ... ] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

Walter Scott