John Updike Quotes

Cars used to have such dashing shapes, like airplanes, back when gas was cheap, twenty-five cents a gallon.

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• I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Morning

• We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Know
  • Deep
  • Scars

• Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Animal
  • Chaos
  • WIld

• Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.

  

  Yu Chui Yee
  • Life
  • Time
  • Proud

• If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Brain
  • Being
  • Physical

• I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Shining
  • Fears

• God knows, we don't want prayer.

  

  Oliver North
  • God
  • Want
  • Prayer

• I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Better
  • Result
  • Been

• I think basically lables were more interested in a Richard Page record than a Mr. Mister record.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Think
  • More
  • Page

• I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Experience

• I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Together
  • History

• I'll use men's shirts, I love men's shirts, but you have to get them altered because they're shaped differently and I like them to be fitting.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Men
  • Love
  • You

• I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Up
  • Farm
  • Beef

• If police organizations and departments acknowledge that there's a problem and there's an issue, then that, too, is going to contribute to real solutions. And, as I said yesterday, that is what's going to ultimately help make the job of being a cop a lot safer.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Real
  • Job
  • Help

• The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Environment
  • Management
  • Marketing

• Every time you go away, I always sayThis time it's goodbye, dearLoving you the way I doI take you back, without you I'd die dearKnowing I love you so.

  

  Hal David
  • Time
  • Die
  • Goodbye

• It is only through the ordinary that the extraordinary can make itself perceived.

  

  P. L. Travers

• Let us not be governed today by what we did yesterday, nor tomorrow by what we do today, for day by day we must show progress.

  

  Andrew Taylor Still
  • Today
  • Progress

• Courtesy is a lady's armor.

  

  Sophie Turner
  • Lady
  • Courtesy
  • Armor

• Pop music is not a threatening style of music.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Music
  • Style

• Cars used to have such dashing shapes, like airplanes, back when gas was cheap, twenty-five cents a gallon.

  

  John Updike