Saul Bellow Quotes

Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Marriage

• If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Want
  • Interesting

• If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Thinking
  • Interesting
  • Brain

• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Life
  • Long
  • Man

• The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Relationship
  • Grow
  • Harmony

• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Think
  • Future
  • Party

• Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • You
  • Saying

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• I have a chart for success at school because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. It opened my mind to the world. I learned to read.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • World
  • Great
  • Mind

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• 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

• Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Good Things

• My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Mom

• I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Time
  • Style
  • Same

• World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Religious
  • Humanity

• I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • America
  • True
  • Realize

• The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.

  

  Major Owens
  • Place
  • Start
  • First

• He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Help
  • Save
  • Consent

• The world hasn't noticed, but R&B has shifted. It's changing course.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • World

• A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'

  

  Frank McCourt
  • People
  • World
  • She

• When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Control

• The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Today

• Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • People