Jacques Prevert Quotes

#1. All will be lost apart from happiness.

Jacques Prevert

#2. I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

Todd Phillips

#3. Vertical lift-up politics rather than horizontal left-right.

Mike Huckabee

#4. When I see people laughing at ideas and companies we have backed, I smile. It means we are going to make a lot of money on that investment.

Fred Wilson

#5. Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man.

Dennis Farina

#6. Love is so simple.

Jacques Prevert

#7. Three matches one by one struck in the night
The first to see your face in its entirety
The second to see your eyes
The last to see your mouth
And the darkness all around to remind me of all these
As I hold you in my arms.

Jacques Prevert

#8. Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Jacques Prevert

#9. Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.

Jacques Prevert

#10. Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.

Joel Madden

#11. He put the coffee in the cup. He put the milk in the cup of coffee. He put the sugar in the white coffee, with the tea-spoon he stirred. He drank the white coffee and he put the cup down. Without speaking to me.

Jacques Prevert

#12. We should try to be happy, just to set an example

Jacques Prevert

#13. When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

Jacques Prevert

#14. I am angry about the mammoth, out-of-control social welfare entitlement programs from Washington, D.C., that were supposed to solve our problems. The obvious truth is these impractical, politically motivated programs have irreparably damaged the fabric of our black society and community.

Allen West

#15. Lark of memory
it is your blood that is flowing
and not mine
Lark of memory
I have tightened my fist
Lark of memory
dead bird of mist
you should not have come
to eat from my hand
the grains of oblivion.

Jacques Prevert

#16. An orange on the table
Your dress on the rug
And you in my bed
Sweet present of the present
Cool of night
Warmth of my life

Jacques Prevert

#17. After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision. By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment
Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE. It's been a great run.

Hank Williams Jr.

#18. Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.

Jacques Prevert

#19. What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Rod Stewart

#20. Depression means that you have no point of view.

Andrew Solomon