Gainsbourg Serge Quotes & Sayings

I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does. — Stephanie Szostak

When each one of us become an active and living book of lessons for those who see our examples, the boundaries of religious interpretation will give way to the new era of brotherhood and peace we're waiting for. — Chico Xavier

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Louise often feels like part of her is "acting." At the same time , "there is another part 'inside' that is not connecting with the me that is talking to you," she says. When the depersonalization is at its most intense, she feels like she just doesn't exist. These experiences leave her confused about who she really is, and quite often, she feels like an "actress" or simply, "a fake. — Daphne Simeon

The fatal conceit of most spies is to believe they are loved, in a relationship between equals, and not merely manipulated. — Ben Macintyre

Good deeds move you towards the right place, at the right time, and with the right people. When you succeed in good things, ultimately you will experience enlightenment/ascension. — Hina Hashmi

I know my limits. That's why I'm beyond. — Serge Gainsbourg

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you. — Katherine Anne Porter

No matter the time, carried away the wind is Better your absence Thy indifference. — Serge Gainsbourg

I've succeeded at everything except my life. — Serge Gainsbourg

Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer. — Serge Gainsbourg

I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting ... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting. — Barbara Rosenblat

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures. — Serge Gainsbourg

I am incapable of mediocrity. — Serge Gainsbourg

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do. — Shigeru Miyamoto

I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that. — Joey Santiago

The love that we will never make together is the most beautiful, the most violent, the most pure, the most heady. — Serge Gainsbourg

You need that marketing power. You need to go do the interviews. You need to put yourself out there and risk and be open to the fact that people are going to not like you, and they are just going to rip you apart, and whatever you say in an interview can get quoted out of context. — Sharlto Copley

We walk around carrying Closed signs around our necks while we press Open to our chests and wonder why the doorbell never rings. — Shinji Moon

When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the slightest distinction, however, and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. If you wish to see the truth, then hold no opinions for or against anything. To set up what you like against what you dislike is the disease of the mind. — Hsin Hsin Ming

I like the night, I have clearer ideas in the dark. — Serge Gainsbourg

God, Jack, it makes you want to go out and convert the whole damn world to homosexuality," she told him. "Just so you can walk down the street with your head up. "Maybe — Lily Tomlin Ann Bannon

really great painting is fluid enough to work its way into the mind and heart through all kinds of different angles, in ways that are unique and very particular. — Donna Tartt

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. — Serge Gainsbourg