Saul Quotes

A writer is a reader moved to emulation.

All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.

I am an American – Chicago born.

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.

And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.

But there are things you can't consult anybody about.

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

The distinctions between advertising and marketing are blurring, requiring new roles and new forms of consumer-centric marketing.

Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.

Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.

There is a kitsch of death. For example, death transformed into sweet sleep: The 'good night, sweet prince' of the last scene of Hamlet.

If you think about it long enough, you'll see that it's obvious.

A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.

Only unsolvable problems are worthy of artificial intelligence.

Before I begin speaking, there is something I would like to say.

We need a proportional quantitative understanding of energy use, for everyone.

If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Try telling a Cuban: 'You should pay higher rent, or pay for your own healthcare' ... There is no serious opposition to the current government.

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not

From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it

So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising

Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators

I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us

Nobody really expects a Nobel Prize call

Probably the single most important thing about the Nobel Prize for most people is whether they get the coveted parking space on campus.

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

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot

It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true

You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.

The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

I think that heartbreak is a good thing.

I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that.

For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live

It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.

A lie preserved in stained glass doesn't make it more true.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.

If you feel something, you should do it.

The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.