Apartment Quote by John Updike Download Open image “The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.” — John Updike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apartment Good story Religion Space Stories
“Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space. — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable qualities of the story is that it creates space. We can dwell in a story, walk around, find our own… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“In the minds of the early Christians, the people—not the architecture—constituted a sacred space.” — Frank Viola Copy Share Image
A story is not like a road to follow... it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“The loss of connection between churches and neighborhoods creates a corresponding loss of localized imagination and creates an addictive-like dependence on a contextual experts… — Tim Keel Copy Share Image
“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“Religion to me almost like when God leaves – and people devise a set of rules to fill in the space.” — Bono Copy Share Image
“Our apartment was at the top of a tall building opposite Teşvikiye Mosque, and our bedroom windows looked out on many other families’ bedrooms… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Why? Why use the room as introduction to an apologia? Because the room, though windowless and cold at night, is a hothouse. Because the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“The basements of the churches I've loved reveal the foundation of the spiritual life to be not belief so much as engagement with the… — Elizabeth J. Andrew 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
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard… — Jean Pigozzi Copy Share Image
Every New Yorker spends a certain amount of nervous energy thinking, "How can I afford to stay here? What do I have to sell… — Sharon Zukin Copy Share Image
Most of my work is, I get an idea, and, with the help of Wikipedia, I can write. I don't have to leave my… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
I don't think taste is about money. As your career develops, you're able to decide what to spend your money on. I live in… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
My father would never have come to visit, he detested Eva's [Braun] choice in a man and the fact [Adolf] Hitler had set her… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
