Jean Gabin quotes

“I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.”
-- Jean Gabin

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“I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.”
-- Jean Gabin

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“The theater is too deep for me. I prefer bicycling.”
-- Jean Gabin

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“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011

“It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.”

“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 555, 1895.

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.”

“There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it....”

Source : Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

“Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”

Source : "Character: Albert Collins". "Adventures in Babysitting", www.imdb.com. 1987.

“Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.”