Book Quote by John Updike

I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

— John Updike

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Understand that all motivation is internal, or intrinsic.”

— Del Suggs

No matter how much money you make or don't, how many friends you think you have or lack or how much you know you…

— Lisa Bloom

There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Intrinsic value can be defined simply: It is the discounted value of the cash that can be taken out of a business during its…

— Warren Buffett

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe…

— Alan Greenspan

True virtue, wheresoever it moves, still carries an intrinsic worth about it.

— John Vanbrugh

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

— Roger Scruton

The intrinsic path to success is to focus on being the person that you are, and put all of your energy and drive into…

— Paul Buchheit

Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the…

— Mamie Van Doren

I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear…

— Mike Huckabee