Saul Bellow Quotes

All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!

Saul Bellow

• Imagination
• Enough
• Force
• Accomplishment
• Ecstasy

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• The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Truth
  • America
  • Broken

• My mom grew up in a strict Catholic family and moved to New York and became part of the Warhol factory.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mom

• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Person
  • Honor
  • Reward

• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • City
  • Chicago

• Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.

  

  Ted Turner
  • World
  • Man
  • Dangerous

• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• My parents are high school sweethearts.

  

  Becky G
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Proud
  • Always
  • Something

• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Like
  • Silence
  • Word

• I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Play
  • Knew
  • Villain

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • True
  • House
  • Always

• I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Live
  • Theater
  • Merits

• As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Serious

• I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Thought

• It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Life
  • Money
  • Single

• We are struggling with racism, but racism is also alive and well in many other countries. And what we must overcome is racism being the cause of conflict. And what we need to recognize human beings as human beings; to award merit.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Racism

• Facebook is one way to be able to communicate in a quick way. I never hired a firm to send out pictures and such so I am lame that way. All I can say is how grateful I am for the fans I have.

  

  Scott Cohen
  • Fans
  • Pictures
  • Communicate

• But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Want
  • Die
  • Patriotism

• I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Fear
  • Unknown

• Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Force
  • Conformity

• I propose,” replied Jack, “that we shall undress ourselves, rub ourselves entirely over with charcoal and grease, so that they shall not recognise us, and dash in and carry the girl off by a coup de main. In which case it will, of course, be neck or nothing, and a tremendous race to the cave, where, if they follow us, we will keep them at bay with our rifles.” “Umph!

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Ourselves
  • Propose
  • Jack

• All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Imagination
  • Enough
  • Force