Saul Bellow Quotes

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

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• Good comedy is ageless.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Ageless

• I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Men
  • Women
  • Daughter

• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Better
  • Satisfaction

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• We go after legacies because we just know that, sooner or later, people will understand what we bring to this culture and bring to the game.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Game
  • Culture

• There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Mad

• Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.

  

  Yuna
  • Job
  • Artist
  • Forget

• I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Great
  • Think
  • Problem

• I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Same
  • Fast

• I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Summer
  • Interested

• I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Age
  • Sorry

• I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Energy
  • Action
  • Ideas

• When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Experience
  • Memories
  • More

• Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Power
  • Man
  • Slavery

• I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Think
  • Myself

• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Kid
  • Brown
  • James

• I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Thinking
  • Words

• It's kind of the yin and yang that fascinate me. That for all the evil men do, there are also people who work obnoxiously long hours and sacrifice their personal lives because it is a calling - if they don't keep our streets safe, if they aren't there to advocate for and save beaten women and children and murder victims, who will?

  

  Lisa Gardner
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • People

• I like characters who are contradictory.

  

  David Bergen

• I want everybody to think I'm a hard worker as an aunt, a sister, a friend, a daughter, a niece, everything. I want to be great at every role, because every role in my life is as important as being Jessie J.

  

  Jessie J
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• So you met someone who set you back on your heels - goody, goodyYou met someone and now you know how it feels - goody, goody

  

  Johnny Mercer

• And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • People