Saul Bellow Quotes

The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.

Saul Bellow

• Thinking
• Real
• Waiting
• Ocean
• Bitter
• Intention

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• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Real
  • You
  • Die

• I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Real
  • School
  • Love

• One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Problem

• We've gone too far in thinking we can re-create an American democratic paradise in the Middle East.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Paradise

• I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism of a woman like that.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Women
  • Real
  • American

• I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Success
  • Ideas

• I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • College

• One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Real
  • Song
  • Goals

• The flaws, the mistakes I make – that's the real me.

  

  Nas
  • Real
  • Me
  • Mistakes

• You can consciously make a difference with music. Bob Marley is one of those few artists that everyone can say that they love. He makes you feel good. It's very real.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Good
  • Music
  • Real

• I'm not around real dead people all that often - most people aren't - but when you are, you tend to be very, very respectful and quiet, and people do tend to whisper 'cause you're trying to show massive amounts of respect, but if this is your daily life, you have to figure out a way to go about it and not go insane by the time you reach Friday.

  

  Brian Dietzen
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Children
  • Bitter

• We tend to think of human trafficking as a foreign issue, not something that could happen here in our own back yards. But it's a fast-growing problem in the United States, in every area, with no real defined demographic.

  

  Lori Foster
  • Real
  • Growing

• Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Real

• My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different places, sometimes things happen.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Player

• At 18, if someone had said to me, "I think you should go to rehab and get cleaned up," I would have thought, "You're fucking mad."

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Thinking
  • Mad
  • Said

• My prior stint at 'Newsweek' was a very different world. So it's what it's like to be in one of these kooky software startups as a grown up. It's not entirely pleasant! It's like, 'Oh, I don't fit.'

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Waiting