John Updike Quotes

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

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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My husband always smells good to me.

Jessica Capshaw

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And, of course, all of my friends and family are so excited because they feel like Montreal is being represented on Mad Men.

Jessica Pare

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The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

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I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

Andrew Young

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I'm working really hard to get the clarinet out of that hole, that Benny Goodman thing.

Anat Cohen

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The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.

Melanie Rawn

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I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.

Amos Oz

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You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

Steve Guttenberg

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Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Tom T. Hall

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I didn't have the base I needed to win the election.

Rodney Alexander

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There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

Mike Krzyzewski

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I hear a lot of influence from me and Timbaland's whole sound in a lot of records of today. But if you have classics like that, then I'm sure you gotta expect that it's gonna influence some people. So, I'm fine with that.

Missy Elliott

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