Isabelle Adjani (Isabelle Yasmina Adjani) Quotes

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

Isabelle Adjani

• Passion
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• Pleasure

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• I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Like

• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • Pretty
  • Cool
  • Being

• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Thought
  • Nothing
  • Absence

• I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Christ
  • Really
  • Drinking

• Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Women
  • Film

• Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Choice

• My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • War
  • Just
  • Cynicism

• I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Working
  • Kennedy
  • Ted

• The same intact culture that made them good businessmen also made many of them lousy parents.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Culture

• Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Life
  • Career
  • Son

• You can get excited and feel unstoppable, but every week presents a new challenge. Each week, you have to work and get better.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Work
  • Challenge

• I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• You just have to find your activism, and don't let anyone tell you what that should look like. If you're doing the work, and you're getting someone to think, you're on the right path.

  

  Angie Thomas
  • Work
  • Path

• I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I'm aware that that's a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, 'Is this really what you want to do?'

  

  James Corden
  • Good
  • School
  • Wish

• Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.

  

  Future
  • Work
  • Music
  • Space

• I think, for so long, women of different sizes have been pigeonholed, and with every campaign, it's always an adaptation of making fashion but for plus sizes. Sometimes it's in a little bit of a negative way, and plus is always a little bit slow to be fashion forward.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Different
  • Long
  • Women

• Tell the rabble my name is Cabell.

  

  James Branch Cabell

• I want a strong military. But I do not believe, among other things, that without an audit, we should be throwing tens of billions of dollars more into the Department of Defense.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Military
  • Department Of Defense
  • Audit

• Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Learning
  • Passion

• As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her.

  Daniel Cawdry
  • Pleasure
  • Fairs
  • Sugar

• Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

  

  Isabelle Adjani
  • Passion
  • Violence
  • Pleasure