John Updike Quotes

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

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Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.

Jerry Saltz

LifeStyleYearEarlyNewPersonal

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Mel Brooks

WinStandYouRhetoricNeverTrade

And the continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.

Max Born

ScienceNewAlwaysBeenOlderOur

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

Stanley Tucci

YouWantMakeMovieGotta

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

Tracy Chapman

EconomicsGenderDiscriminationRace

We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.

Robert Crippen

TwoOverDaysLittleBeingOnly

Everyone has a smart phone, and everything is recorded. One event spills into another. Conclusions come quickly at the near total expense of consideration of what just actually happened.

Mike Barnicle

SmartPhoneEveryoneEverythingJust

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

Julia Garner

LifeGreatTimeLieLiarThought

The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I had a normal life; we didn't meet movie stars. We lived in Texas where you had rollerskates, and if you got a bicycle, that was a very big gift.

Debbie Reynolds

LifeStarsGiftTexasBicycleYou

Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn't something society doesn't know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else.

Brad Sherman

SocietyNewKnowHumanHuman Being

My fans mean everything to me - especially the sisters! When you're on 'The View' or you're doing movies and stuff, you're a little bit insulated. It means so much to me when a woman comes up to me and says, 'Sherri, you said what I feel.' That just means so much to me to know that I have that support.

Sherri Shepherd

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