Top 32 Jean Dominique Bauby Quotes

#1. A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.

Mason Cooley

#2. The identity badge pinned to Sandrine's white tunic says "Speech Therapist," but it should read "Guardian Angel.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#3. The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. They do not see what they look at, hence they know not what they do.

Frederick Franck

#5. 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

#6. Some part of us still believes that men should kill.

Robin Skelton

#7. Castaways on the shores of loneliness

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#8. If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it's not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?

Lady Gaga

#9. Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

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#10. What demon could have induced people to line a whole room with orange fabric?

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#11. Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

Aristotle.

#12. France was at peace; one couldn't shoot the bearers of bad news.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#13. 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

#14. If you hang in there long enough, you will eventually reach your goal.

Jack Canfield

#15. My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#16. The liberation of women has brought a lot of equality to the man, in the emancipation of the man as a bulldog; we can also be soft. It's interesting, because sometimes I maybe push the men a little bit more than the women, because it's a little bit less expected.

Mario Testino

#17. Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person's true nature?

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#18. I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.

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#19. Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

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#20. If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

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#21. Each of us is a unique thread, woven into the beautiful fabric, of our collective consciousness.

Jaeda DeWalt

#22. 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.

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#23. It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

Anne Tyler

#24. 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.

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#25. Dwarves sat on stoops, clapping and cheering as we ran by. A few of them recorded videos of us on uniquely crafted smartphones. I figured our attempted getaway would go viral on the Dwarven Internet, famous among Internets.

Rick Riordan

#26. When I began a diet a week before my stroke, I never dreamed of such a dramatic result.

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#27. In that hothouse atmosphere, criminal records bloomed like orchids all around us.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#28. The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

Patricia Hampl

#29. Here! answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her

Louisa May Alcott

#30. We thread our way through a moving forest of ice-cream cones and crimson thighs.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#31. A priest should take to heart the shameful scene of shepards filthy while the sheep are clean.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#32. 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

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