John Updike Quotes

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

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• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Award

• As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Feeling
  • Relationship
  • Management

• My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Why
  • Parents
  • Know

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Shark

• For too long, Japan has been dragging its feet as it ignores the steps the U.S. has made to ensure a safe beef supply and shows a disregard for our prior trade pacts.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Long
  • Feet
  • Safe

• While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Future

• I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Day

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • World
  • Songs

• I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Player
  • Baseball
  • Professional

• Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Sex
  • Dreams
  • Sexual

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Sometimes

• At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Late
  • Chief
  • Relative

• Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Up
  • God
  • Free

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Ambition

• It's really empowering to have curly hair.

  

  Cam
  • Hair
  • Empowering
  • Curly

• I'm very proud of our kids' effort and I thought both teams left everything on the floor. They forced us to rush some things and they beat us to the ball a couple of times, which I thought was the difference.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Kids
  • Proud
  • Efforts

• When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • War
  • Wisdom

• The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Faith
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

  

  John Updike
  • Why
  • Wisdom