Saul Bellow Quotes

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

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• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Questions

• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Game
  • College

• We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Love
  • City
  • Creativity

• I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Think
  • Hurt
  • Successful

• Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Sex
  • Dying
  • Generation

• 'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Success
  • Film

• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Know
  • Dying

• I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Beautiful
  • Value
  • New

• Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Technology
  • Philosophy

• I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • Always
  • Years
  • Working

• I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Fashion
  • Did
  • Outsider

• I feel like I'm creeping closer to finding the situation that triggers songwriting, which is obviously an extreme of an emotion.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Feel
  • Finding
  • Songwriting

• Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Reason

• It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • True
  • Political
  • Progress

• The message I really want to get out there is that I'm someone who works hard, gets the most out of his talent, off the course has a great family life.

  

  Luke Donald
  • Life
  • Great
  • Family

• It was one thing, after all, to know his feelings for Amanda hadn't changed; it was another thing entirely to face the future with the certainty that they never would.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Feelings
  • Changed
  • Faces

• Some of these people think the universe is five thousand years old, and they say it with a straight face. If somebody had an explanation saying why they thought the earth was five thousand years old, there's only two possible explanations: you're really stupid, or you're really cynical and trying to get really stupid people's votes.

  

  James Carville
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.

  

  Bruce Nauman
  • Done
  • Art

• I have a very bad memory. So I would like a chat bot to just remind me of everything I forget. I spend my entire life on Google trying to remember stuff.

  

  Adwoa Aboah
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Remember

• Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Life
  • Art
  • Universe