John Updike Quotes
Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.John Updike
Quotes to Explore
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
Gary Coleman -
Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
Aaron Stanford -
But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
Orlando Bloom -
All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?
Patrick deWitt
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
Malcolm Gladwell -
I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
Felicia Day -
The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
Dalai Lama -
I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
Baron d'Holbach -
I'd been sending out demos and CDs for years. I knew my stuff was good enough, but I was getting nowhere. Then, three people - my future manager and two publishers - happened to send one of my tracks to EMI publishing in the same week. All of a sudden, they were interested!
Calvin Harris
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I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
Carl Forti -
Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
The American Communists had thrived as champions of domestic reform.
Earl Browder -
Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,Both the great vulgar and the small.
Abraham Cowley -
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Rain -
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
Oscar Wilde
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There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.
David Mitchell -
I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
Ami Ayalon -
Gansey had once told Adam that he was afraid most people didn't know how to handle Ronan. What he meant by this was that he was worried that one day someone would fall on Ronan and cut themselves.
Maggie Stiefvater -
I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.
Emily Dickinson -
Thirty-six years old and he knows less than when he started. With the difference that now he knows how little he'll always know.
John Updike