Top 33 Bauby Jean Quotes
#2. I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#3. Police business," he said almost gently, "is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get - and we get things like this.
Raymond Chandler
#4. Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#5. Titles are for small people to feel important, and Master makes me sound as if I'm planning world domination
Aoife Clifford
#8. Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#9. I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#11. When I began a diet a week before my stroke, I never dreamed of such a dramatic result.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#12. In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#13. I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.
Jimmy Page
#14. Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
Douglas Sirk
#15. I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
Jackie Chan
#16. We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#17. Yet I understood the poetry of such mind games one day when, attempting to ask for my glasses (lunettes), I was asked what I wanted to do with the moon (lune).
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#18. The identity badge pinned to Sandrine's white tunic says "Speech Therapist," but it should read "Guardian Angel.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#19. My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#20. In the past, it was known as a "massive stroke," and you simply died. But improved resuscitation techniques have now prolonged and refined the agony.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#23. What demon could have induced people to line a whole room with orange fabric?
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#24. Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#25. I blinked slowly at that notion. "A honeymoon free of your mother-in-law." "Worth more than gold or jewels," Hades said.
Jim Butcher
#26. I've been making movies for a long time. The Japanese way of making movies has become second nature to me. To get away from that, I really try to surround myself with younger staff and approach making movies not like a veteran of the industry but always as a beginner and a rookie.
Takashi Miike
#28. Eating a cookie never feels strange. I am a big believer in food in general.
Keri Russell
#30. You can handle the wheelchair, said the occupational therapist, with a smile intended to make the remark sound like good news, whereas to my ears it had the ring of a life sentence.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#31. The proper governmental policy in a depression is strict laissez-faire, including stringent budget slashing, and coupled perhaps with positive encouragement for credit contraction.
Murray Rothbard
#32. No one is strong in himself, but God gives strength.
G.A. Henty
#33. You two have sex every time you look at each other; sleeping together is just a formality you haven't gotten around to yet.
P.J. Tracy
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