Saul Bellow Quotes

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

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• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.

  

  Warren G
  • Up
  • Good
  • Home

• Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Time
  • Good
  • Doctor

• ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • American
  • America

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Hand
  • Military
  • Fight

• Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Men
  • Promise

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• I wake up some mornings hating me too.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Me
  • Wake Up

• The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Want
  • Communication
  • Without

• I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Internet

• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Grow
  • Others
  • Invest

• The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Own

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Ultimate

• Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Good
  • Free
  • Being

• Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

  

  Dan Savage
  • War
  • Political
  • Culture

• I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

  

  LaDonna Adrian Gaines
  • People

• We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.

  

  Pope Theodoros II
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Feels
  • Knows

• Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Education
  • Always
  • Humanity

• If I need to cheer myself up, I will put on some fabulous '40s musical on video. But I'm very lucky; I seldom get depressed. Without question, I'm a 'glass half full' person. In fact, it's three-quarters full!

  

  Joan Collins
  • Up
  • Question
  • Cheer

• People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • People
  • Nature
  • Ideas