Saul Bellow Quotes

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

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• I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Professional

• My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Amazing

• After the new album, I'm actually retiring man. I'm retiring.

  

  Justin Bieber

• I feel terrific.

  Charles B. Rangel

• I'm pretty normal in some ways. In some ways I'm completely extraordinary, and in other ways I'm completely weird and eccentric.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Pretty
  • Weird
  • Ways

• The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Journalism
  • Monopoly
  • Blogs

• When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies.

  

  Roy Wood Electric Light Orchestra
  • Band
  • First
  • Harmonies

• I'd rather go with something eccentric - but beautifully eccentric.

  

  April Greiman
  • Eccentric
  • Beautifully

• This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses.

  

  Alexei Panshin
  • Numbers
  • Busy
  • Limits

• I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Design
  • Personality
  • Eccentric

• We weren't your mainstream '50s family. Both my parents had wonderful, eccentric, artistic friends who treated us as friends as well. How your mind worked was considered important.

  

  Melissa Mathison
  • Important
  • Parents
  • Considered

• I can't stand modern movies. The images are too weird and eccentric for me.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Modern
  • Eccentric

• Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Spirit
  • Silly
  • Clever

• Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man

  

  Rex Harrison
  • Justice
  • Chance
  • Average

• Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers, and there was no income tax. They are some of the most fascinating people, and I am endlessly fascinated.

  

  Riki Lindhome
  • Realize
  • Fascinating
  • Eccentric

• I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but it's so hard. The only reason people are reading my plays and musicals is because I'm in movies.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • People
  • Reading

• If the foundation is firm the building can withstand calamities. The practice of yoga is the foundation so that the self is not shaken under any circumstances.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Self

• Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • God
  • Fear

• Prince would have been the person I thought would live forever because of the way he took care of himself - not counting the fact he jumped off risers in 6-inch heels. He probably had fractures from his feet all the way up to his head.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Care
  • Prince
  • Jumped

• The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.

  

  Charles Lloyd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Alive

• Dear Procrastinator: Taking action in and of itself is not difficult, but is in fact satisfying and is usually followed by a sense of pride & accomplishment. However, it is THINKING about the action that you should be taking and NOT taking it that's difficult, as it leaves you feeling guilty and unsatisfied. THE SOLUTION: Stop thinking and take action NOW.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Action

• I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.

  

  Jules Shear
  • Want
  • Play
  • Put Up

• I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Eccentric
  • Eccentricities