Saul Leiter Quote

Sometimes I'm amazed by how much you can do as a photographer.
SAUL LEITER

What makes anyone think that I'm any good?
SAUL LEITER

I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being tha...
SAUL LEITER

My brothers were rabbis. My grandfather was a rabbi.
SAUL LEITER

I am not immersed in self-admiration.
SAUL LEITER

My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.
SAUL LEITER

I like the Zen artists: they'd do some work, and then they'd stop for a while.
SAUL LEITER

I like it when one is not certain what one sees. When we do not know why the photographer has taken ...
SAUL LEITER

I have been told that some of my photographs maybe indicate that I am a painter.
SAUL LEITER

When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize...
SAUL LEITER

My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer - profoundly and deeply unhappy.
SAUL LEITER

Photography is about finding things. And painting is different - it's about making something.
SAUL LEITER

In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined. One has to be ambitious. ...
SAUL LEITER

There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real wo...
SAUL LEITER

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.
SAUL LEITER

I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty - a delight in th...
SAUL LEITER

I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way.
SAUL LEITER

Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and ...
SAUL LEITER

I stunk. What went wrong? Everything. I was terrible. It was embarrassing.
AL LEITER

I stunk. What went wrong? Everything, ... I was terrible. It was embarrassing. Not being able to get...
AL LEITER

For me, he's comforting to deal with in the sense that he's calm,
AL LEITER

I look at this as a second life, if you will. I needed the intensity aspect of every pitch matters, ...
AL LEITER

In the past I'd think a run or two or three could be a loss, especially in the third inning, ... But...
AL LEITER

I don't think he labored. . . He was ahead of every single batter. He had two quick outs. There was ...
AL LEITER

He came out and said 'Let the defense make plays. One run is not gonna lose the game, get in the zon...
AL LEITER

I know why I'm here. I think it's only going to get better for me. I feel much more comfortable abou...
AL LEITER

Nothing was guaranteed; the roster was set, and even if I chose to stay, there's no guarantee of me ...
AL LEITER

I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. I...
AL LEITER

Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You...
AL LEITER

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
AL LEITER

I was on a plane.
AL LEITER

I was a little nothing. My brother Kurt was a lot older. Mark had three years on me. They were all b...
AL LEITER

It's different. But I was definitely ready, and I was charged about it. How could you not be?
AL LEITER

I stunk. It was embarrassing. Down 6-0 in the first, I didn't give the offense a chance. I take the ...
AL LEITER

He'd get frustrated. I'd say, 'O.K., quit hitting 35, 40 jacks, being Mike Piazza, doing the Pert co...
AL LEITER

A lot of people didn't make it because they didn't understand germ theory back then.
MARCIA LEITER

They talk about payroll and who gets paid what, ... (But) you still got to do it, and it's human bei...
AL LEITER

For seven years, I was in this fishbowl with this intensity, with all the stuff that went on with th...
AL LEITER

It's been good for me. Full circle. Eighteen years ago, I was able to pitch my first game here.
AL LEITER

I think there's a lot of variables and factors. Obviously, I've got to feel good, feel healthy. I ha...
AL LEITER

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveba...
AL LEITER

It's just one of those things you have to do, and then find out how you bounce back. It's different ...
AL LEITER

For me, I found working with Rick fascinating. I want as much data as I can get -- then break it dow...
AL LEITER

come on Joe, just send him in so we can get our bats cranking!
AL LEITER

But I'm still not 100% convinced that Roger Clemens took steroids. I'm not.
AL LEITER

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, ...
AL LEITER

I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.
AL LEITER

I think the World Cup is going to be bigger than what a lot of people are anticipating. At this stag...
AL LEITER

I like starting. It's pretty cool.
AL LEITER

I love the game very much, but when you were a certain type of player for a few years, being a front...
AL LEITER

You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.
AL LEITER

People in the country didn't always have all of the newest health-care advances, and they depended o...
MARCIA LEITER

There'd have to be a lot of talking to convince me to come back, Much less than that.
AL LEITER

He has good ideas, and he's going to be good, ... It's just a matter of whatever else it entails as ...
AL LEITER

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black f...
SAUL ALINSKY

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
SAUL BELLOW

Every other man spoke a language entirely his own, which he had figured out by private thinking; he ...
SAUL BELLOW

By 1917, thanks to the new munitions factories and the women that worked in them, the British Empire...
SAUL DAVID

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when...
SAUL ALINSKY

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara - are as germane to our highly technological, computerized ...
SAUL ALINSKY

Last guys don't finish nice.
SAUL ALINSKY

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have
SAUL ALINSKY

Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy ...
SAUL ALINSKY

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your r...
SAUL ALINSKY

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.
SAUL WILLIAMS

It is a tough choice between ending up in the cold or ending up in a fiery blast.
SAUL PERLMUTTER

We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of bla...
SAUL WILLIAMS

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
SAUL BELLOW

Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting...
SAUL WILLIAMS

In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of ...
SAUL BELLOW

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the eas...
SAUL BELLOW

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative...
SAUL LANDAU

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
SAUL BELLOW

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of...
SAUL STEINBERG

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
SAUL ALINSKY

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for ins...
SAUL BELLOW

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
SAUL ALINSKY

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hol...
SAUL BELLOW

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
SAUL BELLOW

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized...
SAUL ALINSKY

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you ar...
SAUL BELLOW

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abs...
SAUL ALINSKY

The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in Am...
SAUL BELLOW

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if ...
SAUL BELLOW

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately...
SAUL BELLOW

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father ...
SAUL ALINSKY

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argum...
SAUL BELLOW

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most ...
SAUL BELLOW

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerize...
SAUL ALINSKY

Patrick Henry railed against taxation without representation. He should see it with representation.
SAUL LANDAU

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.
SAUL BELLOW

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It h...
SAUL BELLOW

Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, a...
SAUL DAVID

It is surely no coincidence that Napoleon's two greatest heroes were Alexander the Great and Jul...
SAUL DAVID

Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward...
SAUL ALINSKY

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative cen...
SAUL BELLOW

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
SAUL WILLIAMS

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
SAUL BELLOW

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to t...
SAUL ALINSKY

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the ef...
SAUL WILLIAMS

Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the m...
SAUL DAVID

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
SAUL BELLOW

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
SAUL BELLOW

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphin...
SAUL STEINBERG

If the real radical finds that having long hair sets up psychological barriers to communication and ...
SAUL ALINSKY

The Capone gang was actually a public utility; it supplied what the people wanted and demanded.
SAUL ALINSKY

The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That'...
SAUL WILLIAMS

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.
SAUL BELLOW

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang a...
SAUL PERLMUTTER

My forebears were fantastically wealthy Armenians who came to England from India in the 19th century...
SAUL DAVID

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
SAUL BELLOW

You never know about the art world because it's a matter of opinion. If you look at old art like...
PETER SAUL

I celebrated success in the art world, which was quite sudden, and I suddenly had $1,000 a month, wh...
PETER SAUL

I enjoy finding a low subject and bringing it up high. I think with strong technique, you can glamor...
PETER SAUL

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack h...
SAUL ALINSKY

Everybody owned stock in the Capone mob; in a way, he was a public benefactor. I remember one time w...
SAUL ALINSKY

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no...
SAUL WILLIAMS

To the organizer, compromise is a key and beautiful word. It is always present in the pragmatics of ...
SAUL ALINSKY

There were about 30 children at one stage, running around like savages at a place called Callow Hill...
SAUL DAVID

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn...
SAUL BELLOW

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - ...
SAUL BELLOW

In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the Germans launched their last great offensive of the Secon...
SAUL DAVID

The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus endin...
SAUL DAVID

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resent...
SAUL ALINSKY

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical t...
SAUL KRIPKE

My only fixed truth is a belief in people: a conviction that if people have the opportunity to act f...
SAUL ALINSKY

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
SAUL BELLOW

Given the gruesome fate of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family, and the fact that five of the...
SAUL DAVID

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of ...
SAUL STEINBERG

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you h...
SAUL BELLOW

There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argumen...
SAUL BELLOW

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me ...
SAUL BELLOW

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately...
SAUL BELLOW

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SAUL BELLOW

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
SAUL BELLOW

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gra...
SAUL PERLMUTTER

It's sweating the small stuff.
SAUL KLEIN

When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the o...
PETER SAUL

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind en...
SAUL GRIFFITH

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOW

Our plans are to keep the colt, and of course we've already started dreaming. I guess that's why we'...
AL SAUL

Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The mov...
SAUL ZAENTZ

I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to wri...
SAUL DAVID

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.
SAUL PERLMUTTER

First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues...
SAUL ALINSKY

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
SAUL ALINSKY

You are so much more exposed. With an acoustic instrument, so much is laid bare to the ear, and ther...
SAUL GROPMAN

We're excited because it's tripled what we thought it would do. It's 19,000 square feet, great fun. ...
AL SAUL

She had a colt by Western Hanover. He's gorgeous according to Bob Brady, who told me that for a firs...
AL SAUL

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
SAUL BELLOW

,Said Shotgun to the Head.
SAUL WILLIAMS

Some powerful magnificence not human in other words, seemed under me. And it was the same mild pink ...
SAUL BELLOW

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhoo...
SAUL STEINBERG

I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in liv...
SAUL WILLIAMS

Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also aga...
SAUL BELLOW

'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for R...
SAUL ALINSKY

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote...
SAUL BELLOW

History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real l...
SAUL DAVID

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand
SAUL BELLOW

We've all faced the charge that our novels are history lite, and to some extent, that's true...
SAUL DAVID

It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun ...
SAUL PERLMUTTER

I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiat...
SAUL WILLIAMS

Well, there is a piece of famous advice, grand advice even if it is German, to forget what you can't...
SAUL BELLOW

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.
SAUL KRIPKE

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
SAUL STEINBERG

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.
SAUL BELLOW

Look what happened with the redesigned Expedition last year,
SAUL RUBIN

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
SAUL BELLOW

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if ...
SAUL BELLOW

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more compr...
SAUL BELLOW

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world...
SAUL WILLIAMS

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
SAUL BELLOW

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
SAUL BELLOW

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity ...
SAUL BELLOW

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhoo...
SAUL STEINBERG

Give a landlord an inch and he'll build an apartment house
SAUL ANTIN

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
SAUL BELLOW

I wasn't asking. I don't need permission.
SAUL ANUZIS

Demand is as strong as ever and is likely to remain so. Prices are starting to weaken, but volumes c...
SAUL ESLAKE

By the time Napoleon abandoned his army to its fate in Poland - arriving back in Paris on 5 December...
SAUL DAVID

the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past...
SAUL WILLIAMS

Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!
SAUL GORN

Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
SAUL STEINBERG

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we l...
SAUL BELLOW

Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang.
SAUL LANDAU

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
SAUL BELLOW

It does from a distance kind of resemble a marine animal. You can?t find one detail on that engine t...
GREG SAUL

For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition....
SAUL BELLOW

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
SAUL WILLIAMS

People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is ...
SAUL STEINBERG

The artist is an educator of artists of the future . . . who are able to understand and in the proce...
SAUL STEINBERG

A man is only as good as what he loves
SAUL BELLOW

What is art but a way of seeing?
SAUL BELLOW

I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our...
SAUL BELLOW

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries
SAUL BELLOW

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
SAUL BELLOW

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - some...
SAUL BELLOW

There is something terribly nervous-making about a modern existence. For one thing, it's all the thi...
SAUL BELLOW

I'm an American, Chicago born.
SAUL BELLOW

Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaboratel...
SAUL BELLOW

I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.

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Saul Leiter

I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.

Saul Leiter

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