John Cheever Quotes

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

John Cheever

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• I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Music
  • Together

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Friends
  • Weird

• Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Success
  • Like
  • Look

• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Home
  • Want
  • Man

• I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Myself
  • Sad
  • Celebrity

• By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Know
  • Improvement

• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
  • Critics

• I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

  

  Barry Watson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feeling

• I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

  

  Vin Scully
  • God
  • Want
  • Smile

• I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • High
  • Opinion
  • Need

• The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Great
  • Constitution
  • Caution

• Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There's this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That absolutely is not the world we're in anymore.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • World
  • Money
  • Hand

• I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Wear
  • Michael
  • Stuart

• I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Courage
  • Fearless
  • Sheltered

• Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Really
  • Importance

• Dream that you died It takes you out of your mind The black walls of space Take me all the way

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Black

• As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

  

  Lee Marvin
  • People
  • Movie
  • Girl

• The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Act
  • Revenge
  • Private

• The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

• A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

  

  John Cheever