John Updike Quotes

I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

John Updike

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• Nature
• Hope
• Beautiful
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• Perspective
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• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Responsibility

• If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • Real
  • Black
  • Change

• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • High
  • Mountain
  • Blood

• I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Live
  • Die
  • More

• If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Thought

• Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Violence

• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Way
  • Play
  • Dreams

• Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Audience
  • Wonderful
  • Hearts

• I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Peace
  • Forget
  • Never Forget

• Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.

  

  Vash Young
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • House
  • Man

• I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so I've had to find new ways to say everything that I want to say.

  

  Campbell McGrath
  • Poetry
  • Various
  • Tend

• He had a cane, he had an eye-glass, he had a snuff-box, he had rings, he had wristbands, he had everything but any touch of nature; he was not like youth, he was not like age, he was not like anything in the world but a model of deportment.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • World
  • Nature
  • Age

• The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Conversation
  • Remembered

• Firefighters don't go on strike.

  

  Denis Leary

• It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Dream
  • Dies
  • Pursuit

• I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

  

  John Updike
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Hope