Historical Quote by Raymond Queneau Download Open image “All societies are historical.” — Raymond Queneau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historical History
“All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history is studied… — Paul Cartledge Copy Share Image
The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing,… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“As the saying goes: time is money- so give me some money to think.” — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“Spiders’ teeth are not so long as a torment that cannot be avowed.” — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“He wanted to be content with an identity nicely chopped into pieces of varying lengths, but whose character was always similar, without dyeing it… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Charlotte Richmond says of herself: “I have few ladylike accomplishments. I cannot sing, I cannot draw, I cannot play the pianoforte or the harp… — Nicola Slade Copy Share Image
“While taste conveys the complexity of life, a good chef should keep in mind that food can have a meaning that is often not… — N.M. Kelby Copy Share Image
“Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger on my… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre.… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
