Top 100 Jean Pierre Quotes
#1. Geliebten Lakaien are once again here with us. Lisa, Heddy, Henrietta, Peter, and Jean Pierre,
Anne Rice
#2. Jean-Pierre Marquis, From a Geometrical Point of View: A Study of the History and Philosophy of Category Theory, Springer Science & Business Media, 2008.
Roger Scruton
#3. Have and the have nots. Why do people say that, it's stupid? I think it should be the gets and the get nots; that makes more sense.
James Jean-Pierre
#5. It's more dangerous to have a friend then it is to have an enemy.
James Jean-Pierre
#7. There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle ... Perhaps ...
Jean-Pierre Melville
#10. In Hollywood everything is formatted, everything is compulsory, so therefore we have to follow the law of benefits and profit and money, let us say the law of Hollywood.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#11. In the States, I learned to fight for every idea. Sometimes, a director has to be a tyrant to keep the quality.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#13. I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the freedom. I had to fight and struggle a bit but in the end I won out.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#14. The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#15. In documentaries, you're confronted with reality; you can not manipulate or move it.
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
#16. I like the cinema of people like Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton. I am not keen on trying to reproduce reality - for that you should do documentaries.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#17. Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#18. My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.
Jean-Pierre Leaud
#19. The Abbe de Saint-Pierre suggested an association of all the states of Europe to maintain perpetual peace among themselves. Is this association practicable, and supposing that it were established, would it be likely to last?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#20. The worst pain I had to face is the fight with myself. I'm unsure who to rout for, because they both want what's best for me.
James Jean-Pierre
#21. When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my adult life. This doesn't always happen. All children have imagination, but for some it doesn't carry over.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#23. There is no peace more wonderful than the peace we enjoy when faith shows us God in all created things.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#24. All created things are living in the Hand of God. The senses see only the action of the creatures; but faith sees in everything the action of God.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#25. I must not, like the quietists, reduce all religion to a denial of any specific action, despising all other means, since what makes perfection is God's order, and the means he ordains is best for the soul.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#26. In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#27. The day is always good, you just have to ignore the bad and look for the good. Remember it takes more muscle to frown then it does to smile, so smile for another day.
James Jean-Pierre
#28. The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#29. There is no solitude greater than the samurai's, unless perhaps it be that of a tiger in the jungle.
Jean-Pierre Melville
#30. It's always more interesting and more difficult to make something positive than negative. To be negative is very easy.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#32. To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#34. For me, the most important word in cinema is the word freedom. For example, in Europe, we've got freedom, we've got the final cut and that's something which is marvellous.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#35. Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!
Pierre-Jean De Beranger
#36. I stood in the isle thinking about my future, while the man next to me complained, but when I asked him what his dream was he never answered.
James Jean-Pierre
#37. I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.
Georges St-Pierre
#41. Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#42. There is not a single person who cannot easily reach the highest degree of perfection by performing every duty, no matter how commonplace, with eager love.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#43. I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#45. The promise of easy money is but a wolf's trap laid out for sheep seeking taller grass.
James Jean-Pierre
#46. There is a new philosophy for weapons: it's more expensive to hurt people than to kill people. It's terrible. When you have a band of guys on the battlefield, if someone is dead, he's dead. If someone is injured then they have to take care of him, so six people are busy.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#47. This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#48. There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#49. Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting, The parting hour is come! And fast thy soul is fleeting To seek its starry home.
Pierre-Jean De Beranger
#50. The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#51. It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
#52. At the heart of daily punishment and sufferings, in the very wheels of encroaching mediocrity, are found both the keys and the doors to inner worlds.
Jean-Pierre Turmel
#53. A double sided sword is crafted under heat and pressure and comes out ever more beautiful because of it.
James Jean-Pierre
#54. In general, I have some precise ideas about everything, because the film is completed in my head before we ever start shooting. With casting, I am always present, even for the smallest character.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#56. To escape the distress caused by regret for the past or fear about the future, this is the rule to follow: leave the past to the infinite mercy of God, the future to His good Providence, give the present wholly to His love by being faithful to His grace.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#57. The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!
Pierre Cardin
#58. We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can't feed the living.
James Jean-Pierre
#59. I could've quit long ago, but there wouldn't be nothing to quit to, unless I was ready to commit suicide.
James Jean-Pierre
#62. Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#63. We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#64. We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#65. He who believes himself to be far advanced in the spiritual life has not even made a good beginning.
Jean-Pierre Camus
#67. Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#68. I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#69. I look up to the modern entrepreneurs, because the one's from the old age, many are racist, even if no one knows about that part of their lives, but I am not so ignorant that I will not learn from their work to better my life.
James Jean-Pierre
#70. What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#71. It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.
Jean-Pierre Melville
#73. Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!
Pierre-Jean De Beranger
#74. God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#75. The world is filled with moralizers who forget to sweep in front of their own doors.
Jean-Pierre Alaux
#77. I used to think there was a secret when it came to success, until I read a shit load of books and posts and realized the secret is the millionaires are getting rich off idiots like me who believe there truly is a secret.
James Jean-Pierre
#83. This is one of the things I don't like so much about French cinema - we have tendency to concentrate on actors and dialogue and we don't care so much about the visual aspect. I love when you use all the elements at your disposal.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#84. The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#85. Your dreams have to be like a cockroach, they have to be hard to kill and you have to be like that pesky mosquito that doesn't know when to give up.
James Jean-Pierre
#86. I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#87. People can't stand to be alone with themselves, so they bother me when I'm trying to be alone with myself.
James Jean-Pierre
#89. I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#90. I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
#91. Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.
Pierre Jean George Cabanis
#93. it's funny how I'm encouraged to go to school so much, but I've learned more valuable things on google then from school.
James Jean-Pierre
#94. I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#95. I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.
Jean-Pierre Melville
#98. I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#99. (5) If we wish to be united to God we should value all the operations of his grace, but we should cling only to the duties of the present moment.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#100. I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
