#bellow

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. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#although #bellows #breath #come #come and go

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows. ↗

— John Lawson

#dancing #founders #like #motion #much

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#bellow #does #himself #knows #liars

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. ↗

— George Grosz

#back #because #being #bellow #enough

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? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cowboy #funny #happy-trail #humor #saloon

Offered a job as book critic for Time 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 informed by Chambers that there was no place for him at the magazine. Bellow had often wondered, he told us, what he ought to have said. I suggested that he might have got the job if he'd replied that Wordsworth was a once-revolutionary poet who later became a conservative and was denounced by Browning and others as a turncoat. This seemed to Bellow to be probably right. More interesting was the related question: What if he'd kept that job? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#robert-browning #romantic-poetry #saul-bellow #time-magazine #whittaker-chambers

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#bellow #friend #my friend #never #saul

The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#because #bellow #his #knows #me

The country blacksmith who employs no journeyman is never conscious of any conflict between the capital invested in his anvil, hammer and bellows, and the labor he performs with them, because in fact, there is none. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#any #because #bellows #between #capital