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

• I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• I see the sharp inequality between how Haitian and Cuban refugees are treated in Florida. Both groups come here because their lives are equally desperate. But on arrival, the Haitians are incarcerated, and some are immediately repatriated, whereas Cubans get to stay and are eligible for citizenship.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Inequality
  • Citizenship
  • Cuban

• It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Persistence
  • Charm
  • Attracts

• I love saying dialogue and creating a full character more than just being physical. But I always end up doing physical stuff in my roles.

  

  Kelly Stables
  • Up
  • Character

• Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all...who live near God, and who are willing to suffer all things for Christ's sake without being proud of it - these are the men we need.

  

  Ann Hasseltine Judson
  • Need
  • Christ
  • Temper

• 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