Georges Perec Quotes

It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.

Georges Perec

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Best
  • Passionate
  • Courageous

• I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • High

• Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Black
  • Community

• London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • School
  • Cool
  • London

• I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

  Ford Frick
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Opera

• If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Forget

• I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Me
  • Half
  • Attended

• I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Up
  • Home
  • Musicals

• I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Understand
  • Curious

• The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Good
  • Women

• Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Powerful
  • Positive
  • Used

• Agreements are always the product of time and place.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Time
  • Always
  • Place

• Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • Real
  • Why

• You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Positive
  • Transformation

• On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Sex
  • Embrace
  • Mary

• I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Work
  • Maybe
  • Doctorate

• I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Me
  • Always
  • Evolution

• You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Believe
  • Game
  • You

• I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Idea
  • Notice
  • Cares

• I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • World
  • Remember

• I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Business
  • You
  • Know

• I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • War
  • Know
  • Details

• It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.

  

  Georges Perec
  • Live
  • Know
  • Wrong