John Updike Quotes

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

John Updike

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• For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • People
  • Change
  • Thoughts

• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Mom
  • Trust
  • Care

• Be original; don't be scared of being bold!

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Bold
  • Scared
  • Original

• I get out of the pool after a workout and look on my BlackBerry to see if the nanny called and to make sure everything's okay. My child is always on my mind.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Mind
  • Child
  • Look

• God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • Loved
  • Silly

• Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Political
  • Violence
  • Advice

• The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • History
  • Think
  • Matter

• The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Yourself

• BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Long
  • Fan
  • Big

• The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Style
  • Natural
  • Played

• There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Imagination
  • Influence

• Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

  

  Major Owens
  • Up
  • Information
  • Internet

• The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Truth

• I came up in a time when Springsteen, the Stones, Dylan, and the Beatles were still dominant. For every magazine cover with a new band, there were five covers with one of those guys.

  

  Beck
  • Up
  • Time
  • Band

• I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Ideas

• My favorite outfit is baggy black corduroy pants and a baggy T-shirt.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Black
  • Favorite
  • T-shirt

• The garden is a raging sea, The hurricane is snarling;Oh, happy you and happy me!Isn't the lightning darling?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Happy
  • Sea
  • Garden

• Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorizes as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Religious
  • Moral
  • Aesthetic

• 'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'

  

  Leonard Bacon
  • Great
  • Small
  • Knowledge

• I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love.

  

  David Bowie
  • Persons
  • Burning
  • Periods

• Our milk chocolate is very chocolaty. In fact, we don't call it milk chocolate - we call it milky chocolate.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Chocolate

• She had been restless and forceful, a killer of the border hills, yet she had a childlike faith in love. She had given herself to him and never doubted the wisdom of the gift as he had sometimes doubted it. She had kept the faith, and she was dead.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • She
  • Faith
  • Wisdom

• In my 40s - when I was giving to the Red Cross, United Jewish Appeal and other charities - I said to myself, this is all well and good, but these are really amorphous things, and maybe there are some causes out there that I really give a damn about.

  

  Charles Bronfman
  • Good
  • Giving
  • Red

• There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

  

  John Updike