Sunday, May 05, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Saul Bellow

« All quotes from this author
 

One naturally regrets not being an expert or one of those insiders who thoroughly understand. It's hell to be an amateur. A little reflection calms your sorrow, however. The experts in their own little speedboat, the rest of us floating with the rest of mankind in a great barge — that is the picture.
--
"The Day They Signed the Treaty" (1979), p. 224

 
Saul Bellow

» Saul Bellow - all quotes »



Tags: Saul Bellow Quotes, Authors starting by B


Similar quotes

 

If thou seek rest in this life, how wilt them then attain to the everlasting rest? Dispose not thyself for much rest, but for great patience. Seek true peace — not in earth, but in heaven; not in men, nor in any other creature, but in God alone.

 
Thomas a Kempis
 

Liz Phair: "Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Go's on water skis."

 
Madonna Ciccone
 

Liz Phair: "Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Go's on water skis."

 
Madonna
 

Love is enough: have no thought for to-morrow
If ye lie down this even in rest from your pain,
Ye who have paid for your bliss with great sorrow...

 
William Morris
 

Actually the situation is even more complicated, since a separate tentacle picture is needed for each speed of motion of the electron, the speed being measured relative to the suspended magnet or other object on which the moving electron is to act. ...When the electron is at rest, the tentacles stick out equally in all directions. But an electron which is at rest relative to one magnet may be in motion relative to another, and to discuss the action of the electron on this second magnet we must picture it as having a belt of tentacles round its waist. This shows that we must have a different picture for every speed of relative motion, so that the total number of pictures is infinite, and we cannot form the picture we need unless we know the speed of the electron relative to the object it is about to meet.

 
James Jeans
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact