John Updike Quotes

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

John Updike

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HeartAppreciationAestheticHand

But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil.

Jim Costa

CountryOilCafeStandardsIndustry

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

ManWillBecauseCannotHeSays

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

Jehane Noujaim

MeStoryCreditCredit CardMy Own

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

Robert Musil

PeopleWorldArmyViolenceSystem

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

Tony Kushner

AmericaDieSayWillAngelsCertain

I think when you're dealing with faith, you want to be as responsible and sensitive to the material as you can.

Tom McCarthy

FaithThinkYouWantResponsible

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.

Roger Taylor

ThinkImportantDrumsLikeI Think

To be honest, we have no control over what's going on with a movie, much less what people are going to think of it. Your whole life is wound up in it but you don't have control and you have to get used to being on that turbulent plane without trying to fly it. The less you think about all that the better.

Mike Mills

LifePeopleControlFlyBetterYou

I don't remember a single day during the time I was minister of gender, foreign minister, vice-president and president when I saw anything on the part of the men that indicated they were undermining me.

Joyce Banda

TimeDayMenMeGenderRemember

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Joseph Brodsky

FriendshipFriendFindEveryoneHow

I have been blessed to have been working since I was 11. I think horror is an underrated genre. When done really well like in 'The Ruins', it pays homage to some of the stuff I really love in the '70s and incurs some of that energy the fanbase really wants to see.

Jonathan Tucker

LoveBlessedEnergyThinkDoneSee

If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.

Chris Gibson

WordsMeaningConservativeThen

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