Top 100 Julien Quotes
#1. For stage wear and gowns, Julien McDonald, who is a friend of mine. I love that he can be totally over the top for stage wear!
Katherine Jenkins
#2. I also happened to identify with Julien Sorel. Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy.
Haruki Murakami
#3. I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts.
Stendhal
#4. The perversity of woman!' thought Julien. 'What pleasure, what instinct leads them to betray us?
Anonymous
#5. sound reasoning always gives offence. Julien's
Stendhal
#6. These gentlemen, although of the highest nobility,' thought Julien, 'are not in the least boring like the people who come to dine with M. de La Mole; and I can see why,' he added a moment later,'they are not ashamed to be indecent.
Stendhal
#7. Kindly go to Hell!
(Lestat to Oncle Julien's ghost)
Anne Rice
#8. Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.
Stendhal
#9. They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Aeolian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty thoughts about annihilation, death, the infinite, etc., I can see no reality save a shocking fear of ridicule.
Stendhal
#10. Would you really have ... ?" said Julien.
"Almost certainly," I said. "I have deep-seated problems with authority figures."
"But you are one!"
"I know! I can only assume the universe has a really mean sense of humour.
Simon R. Green
#11. Am I capable of deceiving my friend? Julien asked himself peevishly. This being, for whom hypocrisy and an absence of all sympathy were the usual methods of protecting himself, could not bear, this time, the thought of the slightest trickiness in dealing with a man for whom he had friendly feelings.
Stendhal
#12. In the parlance of economics, Julien has said to Pari that if she cut off the supply of attention, perhaps the demands for it would cease as well.
Khaled Hosseini
#13. I feel sorry for all the men in my future 'cause they'll all be held up to Julien (Grenier/WISHBONE protagonist)and I doubt any of them will cut it.
Brooklyn Hudson
#14. Oh, if there were only a true religion. Fool that I am, I see a Gothic cathedral and venerable stained-glass windows, and my weak heart conjures up the priest to fit the scene. My soul would understand him, my soul has need of him. I only find a nincompoop with dirty hair.
Stendhal
#15. Welcome to the ring. Enter those who dare, and let them share the spoils. Only they have earned it. Will you win? The ring offers no promises. But one thing's for sure: unless you get in the ring today, you don't even stand a damn chance. Decide what really matters, and get in the ring for it - now.
Julien Smith
#16. All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.
Julien Benda
#17. There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight ...
Julien Temple
#18. You can change the world again, instead of protecting yourself from it.
Julien Smith
#19. A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
Julien Green
#20. My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.
Julien Torma
#21. So if you see no one like you, no one who agrees, don't worry. There are actually hundreds of people like you, and they're waiting for a leader. That person is you.
Julien Smith
#22. And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
Julien Benda
#24. A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.
Julien Torma
#25. we can never fool ourselves no matter how deep inside our mind we think we are.
M.B. Julien
#29. What we give the world, we have borrowed from no one; it is ours. It may be taken from us, stolen from us, but imitated? - never.
Julien Green
#30. It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
Julien Benda
#31. I looked down at this city, this civilization, and I realized just how little I really knew about a world where there was so much to know.
M.B. Julien
#32. The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.
Julien Smith
#33. It's not the light that's attracting me, but the darkness that's driving me on.
Julien Torma
#34. Teachers ... preach "the superiority of the intelligence"; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical.
Julien Benda
#36. No one has actually gone further than The Sex Pistols, I don't think, in that cultural music arena. They still challenge people.
Julien Temple
#37. The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.
Julien Green
#39. There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.
Julien Torma
#40. Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
#41. gigantic shift and he had no way to find out what had happened.
Ophelia Julien
#42. For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.
Julien Torma
#43. And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?
Julien Gracq
#44. Getting lost is not fatal. Almost every time, it will make your world.
Julien Smith
#45. I'm not sure about anything. I hate being in charge. I hate making the decisions. I'm terrified of losing Mark. I'm terrified of losing Emma. I want someone to take over. I'm not as strong as you think. The things I want are wrong and broken things to want.
Cassandra Clare
#46. Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.
Julien Benda
#47. The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
Julien Benda
#48. destroy me. love me. warp my image in photoshop with filter presets
push me off the brink of sanity. edit my sister sister fan fiction without my permish
Heiko Julien
#49. Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
#50. Nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what the Sex Pistols were able to do in their time.
Julien Temple
#51. A novelist is like a scout commissioned to go and see what is happening in the depth of the soul. He comes back and reports what he has observed. He never lives on the surface but only inhabits the darkest regions
Julien Green
#52. On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.
Julien Gracq
#53. I always felt there was kind of a millennial aspect to The Sex Pistols.
Julien Temple
#54. A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.
Julien Gracq
#55. The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.
Julien Green
#56. I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
Julien Benda
#57. Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.
Julien Torma
#58. Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
#59. A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.
Julien Green
#60. It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
#61. I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.
Julien Green
#63. God damn it, Andre'. I'm about fucking sick of this jacked up shit! Things are going to go my way or else I won't bring the pretty little fucking mannequin to any more of our play dates! Barbie will get locked away under my fucking key!
Sai Marie Johnson
#64. The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
#65. I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
Julien Green
#66. Floating high on the waters of catastrophe
Julien Gracq
#67. The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.
Julien Torma
#68. Some people die because of a lack of food, and others die because they have too much food. Starvation, obesity. If that's not imbalance, I'm not sure what is.
M.B. Julien
#69. Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.
Julien Smith
#70. I don't know whether there are numbers. And you?
Julien Torma
#71. Beauties such as you are worth far more than a bitch on her knees. Shall we start with a name, precious one?
Sai Marie Johnson
#73. No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line.
Julien Smith
#74. I felt in complicity with the tendency of this country to absolute desolation.
Julien Gracq
#75. There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible.
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
#76. She will never make a good submissive. She's too dainty, and fucking easily bruised. Don't you think I've considered it? She's a trophy wife. I keep her like I would a bloody porcelain doll. Pretty to look at, and great for the portfolio that's all she will ever be good for.
Sai Marie Johnson
#77. If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal! I sometimes have a loathing for the furious cravings that give me no peace except when I am working.
Julien Green
#78. Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.
Julien Green
#79. but the force of traditions, as in all crumbling empires, grows proportionately with the explicit revelation, in the machinery of government and commerce alike, of the preponderant action of all principles of inertia...
Julien Gracq
#81. The question that must be asked is if we are judged when we are in the process of moving from the nowlife to the afterlife, why aren't we judged or split up when we are moving from the beforelife to the nowlife.
M.B. Julien
#82. Each man for himself in that desert of egoism which is called life.
Stendhal
#83. Turn your mobile phone off for a few hours each day. Having nothing to do while you're waiting for a bus can be boring, but it's only when you're bored that the scary thoughts come to the surface. Use a dumb phone on the weekends to prevent yourself from checking your messages.
Julien Smith
#84. You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.
Julien Smith
#85. The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
Julien Green
#86. When the house is blown up, there's nothing to shut or open.
Julien Torma
#88. When love begins my heart is like rich sky that wears stars
Julien Angelov
#89. You can't settle for reaching other people's limits. You have to reach yours.
Julien Smith
#90. Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am," now raises him to say ... "I think, therefore I am not," (unless he takes thought into consideration only in that humble region where it is confused with action).
Julien Benda
#91. How different our life could have been and how different we could have been as a person if one little decision was altered.
M.B. Julien
#92. A redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared it's nocturnal mysteries.
Julien Gracq
#93. The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
Julien Benda
#94. The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.
Julien Smith
#95. Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.
Julien Green
#96. Then of course there are the people who don't see their deaths coming.
M.B. Julien
#97. I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.
Julien Green
#98. Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.
Julien Green
#99. The present is always the best, even when its rough.
Julien Torma
