Jour Quotes

#1. I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless.

Catherine Deneuve

#2. Chacun de nous a un jour, plus ou moins triste, plus ou moins lointain, o u' il doit enfin accepter d'e tre un homme. There will come a day for each of us, more or less sad, more or less distant, whenwe must accept the condition of being human.

Jean Anouilh

#3. I wanted to call you, but I find myself feeling ... awkward when it comes to you."
"'Awkward' is the word du jour," I agreed. "So, I make you nervous?"
"Not quite nervous," he said. "Just unsettled."
I wriggled my eyebrows and inched a little closer to him. "Unsettled, that's even better.

Molly Harper

#4. The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.

Sheila Bender

#5. Amour de ma vie ... ton image hante mes nuits, me poursuit le jour, elle remplit ma vie .. Love of my life, your image haunts my nights, follows me all the day, fulfills my life.

Rachel L. Demeter

#6. The main dry storage room of Sin du Jour is filled with a light unseen on Earth since a time of abject innocence.
And that was long ago, indeed.

Matt Wallace

#7. The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.

Walt Whitman

#8. Quelque rigueur qui loge en votre coeur, Amour s'en peut un jour rendre vainqueur. That little harshness which resides in your heart, Love will vanquish someday.

Louise Labe

#9. he's always walking about with a long face
il est triste comme un jour sans pain

Arnold Borton

#10. On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Catherine Deneuve

#11. When it comes to the teapot tempest that is the Hillary Clinton email imbroglio, the real controversy isn't about politics or regulations. It's about journalism and the weak standards employed to manufacture the scandal du jour.

Kurt Eichenwald

#12. Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter.

Mark McKinnon

#13. In a world of twelve-years-olds in sexy boots and nans in sparkly mini-dresses, the surest way to tell the prostitute walking into a hotel at Heathrow is to look for the lady in the designer suit.

Belle De Jour

#14. It's hard enough judging the motives of people who live in our own times, let alone the motives of those who've been dead three hundred years. They can't come back and tell us, can they?

Susanna Kearsley

#15. Thank goodness it only lasted a minute or so.
The inhalant, that is. The sex was rather longer

Belle De Jour

#16. Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find out what they know best, and THEN you'll know how they'll describe a "hot day." Or a "pretty girl."

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. First the fact that the only items on open display seem to be tampons, breast pumps, and douches, making one feel as a female more soiled and wretched than even two thousand years of Catholic catechism could do.

Belle De Jour

#18. C is for Cash Only. I don't take cards. Where would I put the swipe machine?

Belle De Jour

#19. Another year is ending, but something is pending

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. Why fantasize about what you already experience? I go to the written word for places and faces that I don't get at home. Hot people in hot climates. Sex acts I can hardly imagine. Porn is about the unachievable ... and, therefore, the inherently desirable.

Belle De Jour

#21. Having interests translates as confidence to do and be things on your own without expecting a man to do and be for you. And confidence is attractive. Not to mention independence.

Belle De Jour

#22. Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say.

Belle De Jour

#23. Holding your stomach in when your clothes are off is not fuckable. Slapping your ample behind and inviting him to ride the wobble is.

Belle De Jour

#24. Time is limited and some opportunities never repeat themselves.

Belle De Jour

#25. I decide to go out and spend all my money on underwear, then throw them about the room to
decide my fate like a satiny, lace-gusseted I Ching. Let the gods of Beau Bra decide.

Belle De Jour

#26. If, through some kind of reincarnation, it were possible to be reborn as Ushikawa's clothing, with a guarantee of rare glory in the next rebirth, I would still not want to do it.

Haruki Murakami

#27. She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

Jay Asher

#28. Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.

Belle De Jour

#29. In love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!

Belle De Jour

#30. What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

Stephen Harper

#31. To Dewey, if brevity was the soul of wit, stagecraft was the very center of politics.

David Pietrusza

#32. Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.

Belle De Jour

#33. I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Jack Welch

#34. I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

Abraham Lincoln

#35. Hold on tightly - let go lightly

Belle De Jour