John Updike Quotes
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
Malorie Blackman -
I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
Patrick Murphy -
We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
Dana Brunetti
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
Zack Greinke -
Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
Oscar Isaac -
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
Larry David -
Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
Owen Glendower -
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Oliver Goldsmith -
We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.
Vijay Kumar
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Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
Samuel Butler -
The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
Randy Falco -
One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
F. H. Bradley -
I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
Aaron Sorkin -
The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure.
Zac Goldsmith
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
Karl Pilkington -
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Les Brown -
It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.
Tom Stoppard -
I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he's married in later books. I'm not saying he's very strong in the sex department. But he makes it in bed with his wife.
Patricia Highsmith -
Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.
Catherine Helen Spence -
Nelson '...I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife.'
John Updike