Default Quote by John Updike Download Open image “Humor is my default mode.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Default Humor Mode
“Humour is our 'default mode', if you like: we do not have to switch it on deliberately, and we cannot switch it off.” — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Humor is a very important thing. It is a natural predilection. It is an emotional release. — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images that tug… — John Updike Copy Share Image
In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Nick looked vaguely homicidal, but that was sort of his default expression. — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My combined experiences, doing different films, has made me very concerned about and interested in how you protect your creative self when the work,… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
My face frowns by default, so when I'm most calm is when I appear the least approachable. — Ken Leung Copy Share Image
I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of… — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick Copy Share Image
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
