John Updike Quotes
Re Annabelle ...she is an old maid already. But the bright-eyed flounce with which she sits down and slides her way to the center of the table in the booth suggests that she is still hopeful, still a player in whatever the game is.
John Updike
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
Orlando Jones
Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
Dan Hill
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Baltasar Gracian
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
Dana Stabenow
I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
Valerie Simpson
I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
Mahershala Ali
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke
That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
Dale Earnhardt
If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
Otis Redding
Battles are won in the hearts of men.
Vince Lombardi
I've got to tell you, I'm not really a tie man. I'll wear a tie if I have to: If I'm standing in the dock and it looks like I'm facing 20 years, then I'll definitely wear the tie!
Tamer Hassan
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.
Garry Marshall
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
Alyssa Milano
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them.
John Ruskin
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
Olivier Martinez
Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
Cornelius Nepos
Re Annabelle ...she is an old maid already. But the bright-eyed flounce with which she sits down and slides her way to the center of the table in the booth suggests that she is still hopeful, still a player in whatever the game is.
John Updike
