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Raymond Queneau Quotes

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

Raymond Queneau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: french
Birth: February 21, 1903 - October 25, 1976

Topics

Act Magical Away Accomplished After

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen.

Success People You Wonder Person

I haven't got the yacht any more. The cost of running it was crazy. But it was so much fun while I had it. I don't regret it.

Fun Crazy Regret More Cost Yacht

I used to say that 'happy' was like 'lucky,' kind of imaginary. But now that I'm married and have children, I find that happiness is a real space.

Happiness Children Space Happy Find

Comedy's all math, figuring out the timing.

Comedy Timing Out Math Figuring

I've written a lot about southern California, but I don't use the same characters. Leave the people in the songs in the songs, is my philosophy.

People Philosophy California Leave

Why do we have financial crises? Why do banks lose money? If history is any guide, it hasn't often been the result of speculative bets. It has been the result of banks making loans to individuals and businesses who can't pay them back.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

History Money Financial Result Lose

I am pro-technology that improves the lives of many people in any way possible, and I think the blockchain has the potential to do that.

I Am People Think Potential Possible

I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?

Faith Heart Shadow Devil Sin Living

I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

Time Think Golf Divorce Never Sunny

I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it.

Lose Too Much Want Scary Room Floor

I had to go off to do my own thing, to get my confidence as a writer, and a performer.

Confidence Go My Own Own Get Off

I think I grew a grey watching you procrastinate.

Think You Grey Watching I Think

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