Georges Simenon Quotes

I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

Georges Simenon

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• When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Young
  • Clothes
  • Brains

• I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Think
  • Energy
  • Fast

• People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Thought
  • Fast

• No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Help
  • Rules
  • Fast

• People would get Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence all mushed together in their brains, and, bless their hearts, it would come out Carol Lawrence.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Together
  • Brains

• I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Love
  • Car
  • Fast

• A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Running
  • Forward
  • Fast

• I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Work
  • Car
  • Fast

• I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Think
  • Where
  • Brains

• The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Shadow
  • Over
  • Fast

• Live fast, die young.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Live
  • Die
  • Fast

• For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Family
  • Food
  • Running

• I like to run fast but not drive.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Run
  • Drive
  • Fast

• I write in the studio.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Write
  • Studio
  • I Write

• I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.

  

  Young Thug
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Fast

• Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Know
  • Party
  • Brains

• Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Want
  • Fast

• I was having an argument with my stepfather, and he was like, 'Why don't you join the Marine Corps?' And I was like, 'Noooo! Well, maybe, actually... ' I went and saw the recruiter, who was like, 'Are you on the run from the cops? Because we've never had someone want to leave so fast.'

  

  Adam Driver
  • Why
  • Want
  • Argument

• Everyone's the same. All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot.

  

  Eyedea
  • Reality
  • Change
  • Brains

• For all the huge advances in the control of our lives through science and technology, an earthquake on this scale is truly humbling as well as profoundly tragic for everyone involved.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Science
  • Control
  • Technology

• I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Road
  • Right
  • Thing

• The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Time
  • Truth

• I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

  

  Bono U2
  • God
  • Believe
  • Remembered

• I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.

  

  Georges Simenon
  • Fast
  • Brains
  • I Write