If you go into a goat stable, bleat; if you go into a water buffalo stable, bellow.
The most celebrated American author of the twentieth century, Bellow objected during the first part of his career to being designated a “Jewish writer, ” but it was he who demonstrated how a Jewish voice could speak for an integrated America. Wit...
I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.
Offered a job as book critic for magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to give his opinion about William Wordsworth. Replying perhaps too quickly that Wordsworth had been a Romantic poet, he had been brusquely inf...
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.
I'd love to have the time to learn to sing opera properly rather than bellowing half-formed fragments of melody in exuberant moments.
He's got courage," Alex said. "Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost him and--
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
I want to be a cowboy, but only long enough to barge into a saloon and bellow, "Who's the yellowbelly that stole my happy trail?
A book is a machine to think with, but it need not, therefore, usurp the functions either of the bellows or the locomotive.
Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
Some girls have a real sexy giggle, but whenever I laugh it always comes out somewhere between a bellow and a snort!
Like a bellowing beast, he howled her name, his raspy wails riding the gales like a ship on a roiling sea.
Body and soul can never be married I need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell
The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
Violet Lynn Parker, you’d better spill or I’ll start bellowing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in my Bobcat Goldthwait voice.
I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where you flopped it open and pulled out the bellows. And I've been at it ever since; I've never stopped.
Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.
Lydia could hear music too, of accordion, horn and tuba bands, their oompa-pa oompa lumpen sounds like the bellows of bulls or moos of cows.
