Binet Quotes

#1. Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear.

Tim Flock

#2. He liked cock, this intellectual!

Laurent Binet

#3. The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

Laurent Binet

#4. He downs the contents of his glass in a single gulp and, looking at Simon, adds: "This is as amusing as a novel.

Laurent Binet

#5. So, to cut a long story short, they jumped.

Laurent Binet

#6. In the provinces, being queer is worse than being Arab.

Laurent Binet

#7. If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Memory is of no use to the remembered, only to those who remember. We build ourselves with memory and console ourselves with memory.

Laurent Binet

#9. It's risky to try to determine the moments when a person's life is changed forever. I don't even know if such moments exist.

Laurent Binet

#10. That scene, like the one before it, is perfectly believable and totally made up

Laurent Binet

#11. This scene is not really useful, and on top of that I practically made it up. I don't think I'm going to keep it.

Laurent Binet

#12. Sometimes, after all, there is a bit of justice in this mean, cruel world.

Laurent Binet

#13. If Barthes, along with Bachelard, is one of those who have done most to enrich criticism during the last thirty years, it is not as a theoretician of a still hazy semiology, but as the champion of a new pleasure in reading.

Laurent Binet

#14. No, it's not invented! What would be the point of 'inventing' Nazism?

Laurent Binet

#15. After 34 years, I feel like I did when I was starting out. I feel excited and feel I've never been better doing what I do.

Louie Anderson

#16. The homosexuals are the new Jesuits.

Laurent Binet

#17. Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.

Alfred Binet

#18. Glory to the logos, my friends! Long live dialectics! Let the party begin! May the verb be with you!

Laurent Binet

#19. Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Spinoza fucks Hegel up the arse! Down with dialectics!

Laurent Binet

#20. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

Alfred Binet

#21. Are you driving this slow because you have no idea where we're going, or because you're hoping we jump out of the car & put ourselves out of our misery?

Alexandra Bracken

#22. What would you do if you ruled the world?" The gigolo replied that he would abolish all laws. Barthes said: "Even grammar?

Laurent Binet

#23. You had to choose between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor. You will have war.

Laurent Binet

#24. I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

Elizabeth Berg

#25. I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

Steven Wright

#26. Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

Alfred Binet

#27. When you really want to find the answers to the great questions of your life, you need to look for them deep in yourself.

Frank M. Wanderer

#28. Finally, Jace suspects it's a bad sign that he is referring to himself in the third person.

Swati Avasthi

#29. Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

Alfred Binet

#30. with the formula: "Any similarity of characters

Laurent Binet

#31. I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

Aasif Mandvi

#32. Prudently, night flees the scene.

Laurent Binet

#33. Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

Jacques Ellul

#34. Accountability is not consequences, but ownership. It is a character trait, a life stance, a willingness to own your actions and results regardless of the circumstances. In

Brian P. Moran

#35. Gabcik - tht's his name - really did exist

Laurent Binet

#36. Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Marianne Moore

#37. The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.

Alfred Binet

#38. How many forgotten heroes sleep in history's great cemetery?

Laurent Binet

#39. The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.

Alfred Binet