Quotes About Prevert

#1. We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.

Carol Burnett

#3. Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

V.S. Naipaul

#4. Love is so simple.

Jacques Prevert

#5. 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

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

Jacques Prevert

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

Jacques Prevert

#8. You know, you should really look at where Mitt has led his life, and where he's been financially. He's a very generous person. We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person that is trying to hide things, or do things? No.

Ann Romney

#9. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Oscar Wilde

#10. The fact of the matter is that 40 years ago, unless you bought the record, you couldn't hear the music. It was such a narrow track in comparison to today.

Nick Mason

#11. All will be lost apart from happiness.

Jacques Prevert

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

Jacques Prevert

#13. I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.

Indra Nooyi

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

Jacques Prevert

#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. People care about our digital revenue, not our print revenue.

Dan Rosensweig

#18. There are not enough poems in praise of bed ...

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#19. Are women literal creatures? I have to admit this is not my forte.

Alex Rosa

#20. If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.

Dick Shawn

#21. I'm interested in astrology and astronomy.

Emm Gryner

#22. The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#23. 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

#24. Where were you born?"
"On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered.
"No, no. In what state were you born?"
"In a state of innocence.

Joseph Heller

#25. 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