John Updike Quotes

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenMoneyMenEatingBecome

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

JoBeth Williams

BabyLawyerPlayClockSomething

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

Jennifer Connelly

TimeBehaviorPerfectMy OwnAlways

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

Jennifer Beals

LonelinessMenGameLovingPlayGo

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

TruthScienceLightGenerationDie

I'm so lucky to do what I do, traveling across the country and making people laugh.

Anjelah Johnson

PeopleLaughCountryLuckyTraveling

You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

Jeanette Winterson

WinYouLosePlay

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

Ruud Gullit

PeopleMeExpectationsMagician

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

Romesh Gunesekera

FatherTravelChanceNobodyLucky

I don't think a lot of people have been entrepreneurial about venture capital.

Josh Kopelman

PeopleThinkVenture CapitalVenture

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

Dolly Parton

FamilyChildLostKindLittleCome

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

David Suchet

ActorSomeHimselfPartEveryPlays

A deep appreciation for politics comes from empathy for our fellow human beings and their diverse paths through life.

Chris Sacca

LifePoliticsAppreciationEmpathy

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