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've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want ...
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