Bernard Malamud Quotes

Life is a tragedy full of joy.

Bernard Malamud

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• I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Thoughts
  • Presence
  • Studying

• It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Military
  • Relate

• The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• Creative people are more prone to depression.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Creative
  • Depression

• Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Respect

• I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Rejection
  • Street
  • Editors

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Changes
  • Kill
  • Shape

• In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Habit
  • Natural
  • Perfection

• When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Always
  • Big
  • Yard

• I've been told I'm a player, but people still don't always return my calls.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • People
  • Player
  • Been

• While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Married
  • Texas
  • August

• South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Great
  • Government
  • Values

• I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Cinema
  • Educated
  • Genres

• If you need a door kicked in, just call, and we'll kick it. Now, it may not always be the answer you want, but you will get an answer.

  

  Dan Webster
  • May
  • Want
  • Door

• I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• Yeah, I'm a spiritual person.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Spiritual
  • Person
  • Yeah

• All the drinking and all the other junk that I was stuck in... It was so predictable. So boring. I wake up the next day - somewhere, in some bed, I don't know who this person is next to me... and I'm drunk, competely hung over and have a show to do. The result is the same... When life now is pretty... exciting. You don't know what's gonna happen.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pretty

• It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • People
  • World
  • Action

• Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Career
  • Me
  • Path

• My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?

  

  Bill Keller
  • Mind
  • Dad

• It has been necessary to show the Hospital de Tavera as a model, for the building hides the Visagra Gate, and the dome obscures part of the town, and once treated as a model and moved from its place, it seemed better to me to show the main façade.. ..the rest, and its proper relationship to the town can be seen on the plan. Also, in the representation of Our Lady presenting the Chasuble to Saint Ildefonso, in making the figures large, I have applied, in some way, the observation made of celestial bodies that an illuminated body seen at a distance may appear large although it be small.

  

  El Greco
  • Relationship
  • Model
  • Building

• Life is a tragedy full of joy.

  

  Bernard Malamud
  • Life
  • Joy