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Saying Quotes by John Updike
- Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of…
- Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
- 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…
- Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.
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- If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because you're so… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. — Neil Armstrong
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people. — Mary Kay Ash
- It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying… — David Attenborough
- We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're… — Margaret Atwood
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — Paul Auster
- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
- I'm a mad Gummi fan. I always have Gummis in my trailer. But you can't eat too many because then you get… — Jensen Ackles
- The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
- A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. — Lord Acton