John Cheever Quotes

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

John Cheever

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• My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'

  

  Patrice Motsepe
  • Black
  • Me
  • Capitalist

• Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Power
  • Politics
  • Influence

• Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Nature
  • Treat
  • Human Nature

• Time has changed and now is the age of spending.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Time
  • Age
  • Now

• When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Girl
  • Single

• I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Love
  • Amazing
  • Director

• I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Done
  • Career

• I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is an irony that destroys its own negation and, hence, returns in the affirmative.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Art
  • Law
  • Irony

• My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Bored
  • Nervous
  • Interests

• Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Up
  • Country
  • Character

• This day showed us that we are all completely voyeurs greedy for thrilling entertainment no matter if this is real or not.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Real

• Ecclesiastes said that 'all is vanity,' Most modern preachers say the same, or show itBy their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very soon may know it.

  

  Vanity
  • May
  • True

• God, I'm glad I'm not me.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • God

• I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.

  

  Marie Curie
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Real

• The destruction was mutual. We went to Vietnam without any desire to capture territory or impose American will on other people. I don't feel that we ought to apologize or castigate ourselves or to assume the status of culpability.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • American
  • Desire

• There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • Inspiration
  • Moon
  • Leaving

• You cannot love someone you do not know - not unless you water down the definition of love so much that it becomes meaningless.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Water

• When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Feelings
  • Circumstances
  • Lord

• In analyzing what made the Golden Century of 1870 to 1970 possible, it becomes clear that four physical infrastructure technologies provided the underlying foundation for growth: energy, transportation, health and sanitation, and communication.

  

  Rajeev Suri
  • Possible
  • Foundation
  • Physical

• To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Live
  • Die
  • Practice

• I've always gotten a natural high from performing. I suddenly feel invincible when I step onto the stage. Honestly, I get most of my energy from our fans. They are always so inspiring and they push me to give 200 percent at every show. I always think of myself as a physical manifestation of our music, and our music calls for a performer with a hell of a lot of energy!

  

  Alexis Krauss
  • Thinking
  • Energy
  • Natural

• My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

  

  John Cheever