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Say Quotes by John Updike
- You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
- I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like…
- Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows…
- To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a…
- Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death…
- There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
- It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
- I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners…
- Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
- In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.
- I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in…
- Imagine writing a poem with a sweating, worried-looking boy handing you a different pencil at the end of every word. My golf, you may say,…
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- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being… — Neil Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash