Top 40 Breathless Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Breathless Quotes from famous people such as Stella McCartney, Jermaine Jackson, Adam Rippon, Gillian Jacobs, Shankar Mahadevan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Some days, I get overwhelmed and a bit breathless… I’ve probably cried at work, but I’m limited with my crying: I’m the boss; I’m not really allowed to cry at work.
Stella McCartney
To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he’s very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, ‘Michael, I’ll never leave you. You’ll never leave me.’
Jermaine Jackson
Those are the moments athletes live for – we live for those exhilarating, breathless, take-your-breath-away, you’re-on-the-seat-of-your-chair moments.
Adam Rippon
I’ve always thought – and I don’t even know if I’d be right for the part – that Jean Seberg would make a great biopic. She was in Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Breathless,’ she played Joan of Arc. She had this eventful and traumatic adulthood, she thought the FBI was after her, and she became a darling of the French New Wave.
Gillian Jacobs
‘Breathless’ was an important milestone in my life.
Shankar Mahadevan
I recently read a collection of stories called ‘Boondock Kollage,’ by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent.
Jesmyn Ward
I love ‘Breathless,’ and ‘Paris, Texas,’ and ‘Badlands.’ I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching ‘Badlands’ and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.
Agyness Deyn
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
I live my life, breathless… A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
Eric Burdon
When I first cut my hair short, I was trying for a mix of Mia Farrow and Jean Seberg. The photo I took to my hairdresser was Jean Seberg in Breathless. I said, ‘Make me look like this.’
Morena Baccarin
I live my life, breathless… A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
Eric Burdon
When I first cut my hair short, I was trying for a mix of Mia Farrow and Jean Seberg. The photo I took to my hairdresser was Jean Seberg in Breathless. I said, ‘Make me look like this.’
Morena Baccarin
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
Rupert Brooke
Even at its most outrageous early moments, the Tea Party movement was treated to sober and at times breathless media coverage, to the point of being invited to co-host a presidential debate.
Joy Reid
I’ve always thought – and I don’t even know if I’d be right for the part – that Jean Seberg would make a great biopic. She was in Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Breathless,’ she played Joan of Arc. She had this eventful and traumatic adulthood, she thought the FBI was after her, and she became a darling of the French New Wave.
Gillian Jacobs
I love ‘Breathless,’ and ‘Paris, Texas,’ and ‘Badlands.’ I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching ‘Badlands’ and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.
Agyness Deyn
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Charles de Gaulle
There are few things that have filled me with such breathless awe as flying in the black of night across oceans and continents and looking out my cockpit window upon the infinite glory of millions of stars.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
Rupert Brooke
I was wanting something new, and for me the Beatles were… outstanding. I was breathless, speechless.
Astrid Kirchherr
Some days, I get overwhelmed and a bit breathless… I’ve probably cried at work, but I’m limited with my crying: I’m the boss; I’m not really allowed to cry at work.
Stella McCartney
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
Anthony Trollope
Jean-Luc asked me to play a small part in ‘Breathless,’ the role of Belmondo’s former girlfriend. It was just one scene. I asked him what I had to do and he said, ‘You have to take your clothes off,’ and I said no.
Anna Karina
Jean-Luc Godard saw me in a commercial. He first asked me to play a little part in ‘Breathless’ of a girl who is taking her clothes off. I said, ‘No, I don’t want to take my clothes off.’ But he called me again for ‘Le Petit Soldat.’ He said it was a political film, so I didn’t have to take my clothes off at all.
Anna Karina
Jean-Luc Godard saw me in a commercial. He first asked me to play a little part in ‘Breathless’ of a girl who is taking her clothes off. I said, ‘No, I don’t want to take my clothes off.’ But he called me again for ‘Le Petit Soldat.’ He said it was a political film, so I didn’t have to take my clothes off at all.
Anna Karina
To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he’s very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, ‘Michael, I’ll never leave you. You’ll never leave me.’
Jermaine Jackson
Those are the moments athletes live for – we live for those exhilarating, breathless, take-your-breath-away, you’re-on-the-seat-of-your-chair moments.
Adam Rippon
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
One of my favorite passages in ‘Leaves of Grass,’ that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is ‘Mannahatta.’
Cathleen Schine
For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
Harvey Cushing
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.
Harvey Cushing
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Charles de Gaulle
I think I’ve got it pretty easy compared with somebody who works at a desk nine to five. I’m just working for an hour in the evening. I get a bit breathless, as I have to talk non-stop because of the puppets.
Nina Conti
‘Breathless’ was an important milestone in my life.
Shankar Mahadevan
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
Weegee
Suddenly I had a call one day saying they’d like me to come to the office to see Jean-Luc Godard. ‘He is preparing a film called ‘Breathless.’ Jean would like to see you.’ I said yes. I thought he was pretty strange, because at that time nobody was wearing those kind of glasses where you couldn’t see the eyes.
Anna Karina
For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Even at its most outrageous early moments, the Tea Party movement was treated to sober and at times breathless media coverage, to the point of being invited to co-host a presidential debate.
Joy Reid
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.
Anthony Trollope