Saul Bellow Quotes

For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

Saul Bellow

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• For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Country

• Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Know

• I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Anything
  • Ever
  • Did

• Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Time
  • Important
  • Ahead

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Work
  • Education
  • Refugees

• Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Friends
  • Most

• No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Attention
  • Woman
  • Acting

• I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Man

• After the first million, money isn't important.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Important
  • Money
  • First

• The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Party
  • Single

• A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind

• It's not going to interfere with the film. I heal miraculously. I've been in an auto accident and another fire. They thought I'd need plastic surgery, but I haven't a scar...No, I don't think I'm accident prone, but it's strange.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Fire
  • Auto

• O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed 'The Mau Maus of East Harlem,' and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: 'He was promising...').

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Music
  • Death
  • Rock

• El hombre, cuando sabe que es una cosa cómica, no ríe.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of. I am first and foremost in the entertainment business. If that suspenseful ride is also terrifying because it hits really close to home, then I am once again doing what I am supposed to do as a thriller author.

  

  Brad Thor
  • Home
  • Business
  • Job

• No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn't create that - society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that's good.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• 'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

  

  John Burnside
  • World
  • Friends

• If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you. If that should be wanting, God, who alone could take that hand from you, would Himself accomplish its work.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Work
  • God
  • Support

• For God's sake,' the dog is saying, 'open the universe a little more!

  

  Saul Bellow
  • God
  • Universe
  • Dog