Saul Bellow Quotes

The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.

Saul Bellow

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• I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • History
  • Man
  • Blood

• What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • America
  • Best
  • Failure

• And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • Society
  • Military

• I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • House
  • Me
  • Star

• I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Very

• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Special

• The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'

  

  Yaya Toure
  • World
  • Good
  • Family

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

  

  Beck
  • Winning
  • Expectations

• I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Mind
  • Hope
  • Alone

• In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Attention

• We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Support
  • Movies

• It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Future
  • Happiness

• When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Loved

• Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Words
  • You
  • Yourself

• How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!

  

  Edmund Spenser

• When I am having my picture taken, I channel Beyonce. In the studio, my inspiration is Adele.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Picture
  • Inspiration
  • Studio

• As long as you give your best effort, I feel like that's all you can do.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Long
  • Effort

• The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

  

  Lemuel K. Washburn
  • Women
  • Wife
  • Husband

• Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • History
  • Faces
  • Prophecy

• God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Black
  • Judging
  • Brown

• There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Giving

• Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

  

  Ben Nelson
  • Good

• The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Attention
  • Kind
  • Powerful