Saul Bellow Quotes
Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.Saul Bellow
Quotes to Explore
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
Iain Banks -
As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
Barry Jenkins -
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
Hans Haacke -
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
W. P. Kinsella -
It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
Randy Newman -
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
Samuel Dash
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
David Lynch helped me be cool.
Dana Ashbrook -
I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
Immaculee Ilibagiza -
I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
Ian Rankin -
There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.
Jack Kevorkian -
The very fact that I became mayor in 1977 conveys how you can't figure out what the people will do. Nobody thought I would be elected. When I entered I got four percent of the vote in the first poll, four percent.
Ed Koch
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If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.
Damon Hill -
In the faces of men and women I see God.
Walt Whitman -
However often we turn to it the Qur'an at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer.
Edward Young -
I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
Clive James -
The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.
James Comey
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I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.
Gary Johnson -
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. (6.4311)
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
Would I be the 3rd term of Rudy Giuliani or the 4th term of Mike Bloomberg? It'll be neither. It'll be the first term of Joe Lhota. We're all different.
Joe Lhota -
I love playing with form. I love playing with sounds... I love music, and I love writing that has a musicality to it.
Jacqueline Woodson -
Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for if the father did not strike the son, they would not be alike. It is done to perpetuate similarity. Oh, Henderson, man cannot keep still under the blows.... A hit B? B hit C?--we have not enough alphabet to cover the condition. A brave man will try to make the evil stop with him. He shall keep the blow. No man shall get it from him, and that is a sublime ambition.
Saul Bellow