Saul Bellow Quotes

A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

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• When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.

  

  Camila Alves
  • My Own
  • Italy
  • Greece

• Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Crazy

• I don't even have my own computer.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Own
  • Computer
  • My Own

• Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Why
  • Very
  • Skin

• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Old
  • Fools
  • Behind

• Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Home
  • Most
  • Google

• I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Try
  • Grandparents

• When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • You
  • Lose
  • Things Happen

• I do not live in the world of sobriety.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • World
  • Live
  • Sobriety

• The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Me
  • Best
  • Experiences

• I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Words
  • Language
  • Learn

• I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Money
  • Always
  • Depression

• As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Always
  • Writer
  • Blind

• For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Me
  • Like

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Great
  • Know
  • Dress

• I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.

  

  Warren Giles
  • Game
  • Star
  • Winning

• I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Life
  • Men

• Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Principles

• I like to relax a lot the night before a race. I like having people around me. I don't like being on my own, particularly. Music helps psych you up, too.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Like
  • Choice

• We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

  

  Kate Millett
  • People
  • Women
  • Culture

• And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

  

  Plato
  • Desire
  • Person
  • Moment

• A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Truth
  • Man