The Jour Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#4. The key is to forget about automation and figure out what you can do manually.

Dan Norris

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

Belle De Jour

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

Arnold Borton

#7. 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

#8. But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.

Hubert Selby Jr.

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

Belle De Jour

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

Belle De Jour

#15. 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

#16. Some place to stand and place a lever, there's nowhere from which to move the world.

Cherie Priest

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

Belle De Jour

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Could be, but to a historian, it's been going since the beginning.

William Least Heat-Moon

#24. Hold on tightly - let go lightly

Belle De Jour

#25. We are convinced that the only way to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue is through negotiations.

Sergei Lavrov

#26. You've got to be a believer in what you do.

Philip Green

#27. I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

David Pajo

#28. 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

#29. We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.

Gabrielle Roth

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. The miracle," Claire said, "is that anybody stays together.

Paul Russell

#33. They lived comfortably and it was a good life they had ... happy and full of small adventures.
And they were so young and loved each other so much.

Betty Smith

#34. 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

#35. In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

Natasha Trethewey

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

Belle De Jour

#37. I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.

Nicholas Sparks

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

Belle De Jour

#39. I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

Peter Shaffer

#40. 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

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

Catherine Deneuve

#42. Whether you are watching a video or playing a game, whether you are doing work or fielding an unwanted phone call, whether you are being successful or smarting from failure - in the ordinary context of daily living, you show the power and viability of Christian faith.

Tedd Tripp