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Something Quotes by John Updike
- "Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put to me by…
- Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of…
- The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was…
- There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
- 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…
- I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
- The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
- Having children is something we think we ought to do because our parents did it, but when it is over the children are just other…
- Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.
- I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes…
- There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle