John Updike Quotes
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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I realized that after years of studying Shakespeare and Chekhov and regional repertory theater, what I really wanted to do was bust in and rob a bank and jump in the screaming getaway car and tear through the city and get in a shootout.
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You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
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I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.
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What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.
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I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
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It's essential to feel beautiful to oneself. Not in an egotistical way, but in a self-loving way.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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My problem is, if any place I'm sleeping catches on fire, I've got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.
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I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.
