Saul Bellow Quotes

Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

Saul Bellow

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• I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Writer

• I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Team
  • Chance
  • Awesome

• If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Unique
  • One Thing

• Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Up
  • You
  • Start

• My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Powerful
  • Woman
  • Afraid

• It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Music
  • School
  • Myself

• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Power
  • Night
  • Goal

• I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Learning
  • Democracy

• Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Courage
  • Back
  • Daniel

• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

  

  Patrick White
  • Writing
  • Door
  • Habit

• The only way to permanently change the temperature in the room is to reset the thermostat. In the same way, the only way to change your level of financial success 'permanently' is to reset your financial thermostat. But it is your choice whether you choose to change.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Success
  • Change
  • Financial

• I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Man
  • Judge
  • Sure

• Music is organized sound.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Organized

• I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Look
  • Successful

• A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Power
  • History
  • Influence

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• Movies have gotten dull, the way network television got dull. And television, if we can still even call it that, is still really exciting and riveting and people are totally into it. I am always meeting people who have these favorite shows that they are completely wired too and not only have I never seen it but I don't even know how to find it.

  

  William Gibson
  • People
  • Exciting
  • Meetings

• In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Gratitude
  • Order

• I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Grateful

• The Negro people of America... have cut our forests, tilled our fields, built our railroads, fought our battles, and in all of their trials they have manifested a simple faith, a grateful heart, a cheerful spirit, and an undivided loyalty .

  

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
  • People
  • Simple
  • Grateful

• Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Grateful