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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The earth forms the body of an instrument, across which strings are stretched and are tuned by a divine hand. We must try once again to find the secret of that tuning.
R. Murray Schafer -
To play any character, you have to have a total understanding of why they do what they do.
Jamie Dornan -
Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.
Tom Stoppard -
I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I think is one of the things that holds our marriage together. She came from Texas, and she has an optimistic view of life. I came from Detroit and have a very pessimistic view.
David Small -
Nelson '...I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife.'
John Updike