Saul Bellow Quotes

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

Saul Bellow

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• Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sometimes

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • Dancing
  • Grandma

• Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Follow

• The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Control
  • Justice

• It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Good
  • Talent

• When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Voice

• I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Important
  • Way
  • Healthy

• Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • America
  • Think
  • Hero

• Every form is a base for colour, every colour is the attribute of a form.

  

  Victor Vasarely
  • Colour
  • Base
  • Attribute

• I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Children
  • Hate
  • Birthday

• I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Different
  • Society

• Just as liberalism is the main force that drives conservatism and maintains its popularity in some quarters, conservatism is the reason liberalism continues to enjoy the traction that it does in our poor civilization.

  

  L. Neil Smith

• The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Faith
  • Simple
  • Doubt

• This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• I call my balls the bush twins.

  

  Zach Galifianakis

• There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

  

  Chad Smith Chickenfoot
  • People
  • Live

• The general opinion appears to be that it is very funny to make yourself out as fast or as foolish as possible; though even worse than this is the painful orthodoxy of those individuals who claim Shakespeare for their favourite poet, Beethoven for their favourite composer, and Raphael for their favourite painter.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Funny
  • Opinion

• I will not undertake to offer an opinion on the capacity of Hindustan to produce cotton. The region is large, and the soil and climate various, the population great and wages low; but I must be permitted to doubt the success of the experiment of driving us out of the market, though backed and patronized by English capital and energy.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Great
  • Success
  • Energy

• While everyone has a right to his or her opinion, the people who are informed have more of a right.

  

  Bill Dixon
  • People
  • Opinion

• Every time I do photo shoots, my bottom lip and, like, my top lip are quivering because I just don't know how to look. Then the flash kind of makes me go boss-eyed sometimes.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Time
  • Boss

• How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Opinion
  • Dissenter