Yesterday Is Dead Quotes by John Updike

More Quotes by John Updike

John Updike has 348 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
• Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity,…
• The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
• I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
• I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip…
• In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
• Without rain, there would be no life.
• Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
• Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
• What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter…
• "Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put…
• ...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is…

See all 348 quotes by John Updike »