Saul Bellow Quotes

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

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• The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• But what if no one's watching?What if when we're dead, we are just dead?What if there's no time to lose?What if there's things we gotta do,Things that need to be said?

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Time

• The European public has always been great to me.

  

  Kim Carnes
  • Great

• What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life.

  

  Debi Thomas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Free
  • Fashion

• I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.

  

  John McGahern
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

  

  Jessica Walter
  • Trying
  • Movie

• If you're differently-abled, if you're a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that's different from the norm, for whatever reason, there's an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • People
  • Different
  • Color

• The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.

  

  Peter Cook
  • Good
  • Eyes

• Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Up
  • Tree
  • Sunlight

• This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Possibility
  • Meetings
  • Unreal

• I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people trying to control our lives who are actually very unspiritual... God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don

  

  Darren Aronofsky
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• When women can't climax, it's our fault, but when we can't get an erection, we have to go to the doctor.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Doctors
  • Faults
  • Climax

• I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Money
  • American

• At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Time
  • Art
  • Logic

• I'm pagan.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Pagan

• I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Long
  • Family
  • Years

• I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.

  

  Martin McDonagh
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Happy

• We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

  

  Charles Handy
  • People
  • Live
  • Hope

• Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Fire
  • Phoenix

• What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Book
  • Single

• I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Phoenix