Augie March Quotes

#1. Once again it is demonstrated that people do not love their chains or their jailers,-and that the aspiration for a civilized life - that "universal eligibility to be noble," as Saul Bellow's Augie March so imperishably phrases it - is proper and common to all.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.

E.L. Doctorow

#3. America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.

Norman Vincent Peale

#4. Though he believed implicitly everything he saw in print, he had learned already that in the Bible things that said one thing quite clearly often mysteriously meant another.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years old at the time, and then one day my brother's friend says, 'You know what Bob stands for? 'Booty on back.' You're fat.' Like my butt was so big I could reach for my wallet over my shoulder. And I broke down.

Michael Strahan

#6. Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes.

Melissa Leo

#7. I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.

Jeffrey Tate

#8. The lesson of an American life like my father's ... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).

Saul Bellow

#9. I would never say that being Bob Marley's son has been a pressure. It has been a door opener.

Damian Marley

#10. All of the guns are loaded, because an unloaded gun is no better than a rock as a weapon.

C.A. Henry

#11. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up.

Saul Bellow

#12. The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.

Ellen Key

#13. I never really read a character before that I connected with more than Peeta. So, for me, if I couldn't get that job I was like, 'Well, if I can't play practically myself in a movie, what can I play?'

Josh Hutcherson

#14. We are to think about, ponder, and park our minds on constructive thoughts, not destructive thoughts.

Lysa TerKeurst

#15. Obviously I am a photographer and I believe in my medium: I do think that powerful photographs can force change. It doesn't take long to look and be engaged in a strong image whereas, with a story, you have to actually sit down and pause and be involved in it.

Lynsey Addario

#16. They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy

Jorge Luis Borges