Saul Bellow Quotes
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
Quotes to Explore
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
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It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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I think in my own country, at the way we've seen through the ordination of women to the priesthood, which I'm delighted about, and that will move on to another level before very long.
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If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.
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We continue to argue with our European colleagues about the importance of fairness when it comes to compensation and transitional regimes for sugar and for bananas and for other commodities . . . .
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Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
