John Updike Quotes

Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

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• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Real
  • Me
  • Husband

• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Up
  • Done
  • Down

• For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Government
  • Service
  • Ethics

• The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • You
  • Stop
  • Day

• I care less about selling tickets and getting Twitter followers than I do about making as many people laugh as I can. I'd rather make people laugh than make them know who T.J. Miller is.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • War

• Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Age
  • You

• As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • God
  • Child

• That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.

  

  Yaya Han
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Weird

• In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stronger

• Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Bad
  • Man
  • Pride

• I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Myself
  • Deep
  • Moral

• Employment, sir, and hardships prevent melancholy.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• 'The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.'

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Important
  • Mind
  • May

• It's a weird thing to be nineteen and be in the public eye. It was a crazy thing, it was a big deal to me, and it changed me in a lot of ways. And now that it's five, six years later, I wanted to look back at that, the start of it all, the excitement and the naïveté about it, and it just fascinated me to reflect on all that.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Heaven
  • Tired

• Time is anonymous; when we give it a face, it's the same face the world over.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Time
  • World
  • Faces

• Bill and his brother-in-law had shot a deer and drove it in to get processed. At a rest stop, a woman stops at the truck

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Rest

• Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.

  

  John Updike