Augie Quotes

#1. God made all the creatures and them our love and out fear,
To give sign, we and they are his children, one family here.

Robert Browning

#2. Mind you, Augie knew all about spoilers, but whenever she started talking about the downforce equation, adults stopped the conversation in order to praise her intelligence, which made it all but impossible to speak.

Anonymous

#3. I would love to be a superhero.

Anthony Mackie

#4. I used mental illness as a springboard to rest of my life.

Clive Culverhouse

#5. They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool of the Mark Thomas Inn in Monterey, California. His reviews were so good that he repeated the act at a Howard Johnson's outside Denver.

Brock Yates

#6. Augie. You're a good girl," said Dad. This was more hope than truth. "You're nine and a half."
"NINE," she corrected. She hated how adults never rounded down to the nearest integer when talking to children.

Zach Weinersmith

#7. 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

#8. Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

Conrad Black

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

Saul Bellow

#10. The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

William J. Clinton

#11. Augie: Does everybody else know?
T.C.: About my epitaph?
Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face!
T.C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.

Steve Kluger

#12. So finally, I decided that the best response - the safest - was none at all.

Sarah Dessen

#13. Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.

Joseph O. Shelby

#14. Some of the films that I have really enjoyed include: The Fifth Element, The Crow, Toys, Seven, Forrest Gump, The Lion King, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Zhivago, Being There, and Trainspotting.

Frederick Lenz

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

Saul Bellow

#16. Everywhere you look you see people searching for love but they're looking in the wrong places. God is love, and they will never find what they're looking for until they find Him.

Joyce Meyer

#17. If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Zig Ziglar

#18. We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

Dejan Stojanovic

#19. 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

#20. Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.

Steven Novella