Saul Bellow Quotes

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Saul Bellow

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• For each project I do, I try to surprise myself, do the unexpected, and change my own status quo. From the One Laptop Per Child, the Herman Miller Sayl, or the latest Movado watch collection, there is always an insecurity about being able to do something important. I think each of those projects makes me feel like we have progressed.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Important
  • Change
  • Myself

• My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Personality

• I was never cold-blooded enough to look for a gap in the market. I loved stories and wanted to tell stories that should be told.

  

  Debi Gliori
  • Cold

• To me, Mozart is our Shakespeare, the one who wrote the most dramatic, psychologically most baffling music. He combined ideas that no one else would have thought of putting together.

  

  Lukas Foss
  • Music
  • Together

• I'm skeptical that [the Republicans] can do [something better with healthcare] mainly because for seven years now, including when we first tried to pass health care, I said to 'em, "Okay, if [Obamacare] doesn't work tell me what does."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Health
  • Years

• I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Career
  • Beginning
  • Artist

• So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Men
  • Die
  • Jesus

• I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • People
  • Film
  • Stories

• The record company didn't know what we looked like at first. They were all excited about our tapes.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Excited
  • Record Company
  • Tapes

• There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.

  

  Charles Nodier
  • Nature
  • Study
  • Thought

• Fidel Castro's most scandalous show trial was not mounted against a political figure but against a writer: Heberto Padilla. In 1971, after 38 days of detention, Mr. Padilla was forced to 'confess' at the Cuban writers' union to the charges of 'subversive activities.'

  

  Alvaro Enrigue
  • Political

• If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.

  

  Jean Smart
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

  

  China Mieville
  • Book
  • Remember

• I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions.

  

  Donald Cargill
  • Great
  • God
  • Truth

• The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first.

  

  Bob Riley
  • Children
  • School
  • Focus

• It's important for you to do what you love and not let anyone bring you down.

  

  Domenica Costa
  • Important
  • Love
  • Down

• The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other. The actors that are working internationally - that's a small number.

  

  Michiel Huisman
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Film

• A man lives so many different lengths of time. And each one has its own end.

  

  Steven Hall
  • Man
  • End
  • Lives

• It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation.

  

  Thurston Moore Sonic Youth
  • Generation
  • Radio
  • Consider

• If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.

  

  Dana Cowin
  • Change
  • Better
  • Accept

• Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Distractions
  • Hapiness