Another Quote by John Updike

“When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.” quote by John Updike — Download Open image

“When you sit at your desk, if you're lucky, there's a moment when you feel empowered to be someone or something else, to leap into another skin.”

John Updike

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Another Desk Else Empowered Feel Leap Lucky Moment Sit Skin Someone Something Time You Your

More by John Updike

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

John Updike

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

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

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

Image

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

John Updike

Image

Families, doing everything for each other out of imagined obligation and always getting in each other's way, what a tangle.

John Updike

Image

“The fucking world is running out of gas.”

John Updike

Image

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

John Updike

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

Image

“it was somehow wonderful of her to be, in every detail, herself.”

John Updike

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

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

Image

Explore all 592 John Updike quotes

More Another quotes

I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job.

Owen Farrell

Image

I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with…

Cliff Curtis

Image

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a…

Richard Powers

Image

I have to mention that Taapsee and Ayushmann are my favorite actors - or stars, whatever you call them. I love them. Our thought…

Anubhav Sinha

Image

When a person partners with God in delivering a miracle to another person, they have done what they were supposed to do; God can…

Bruce Wilkinson

Image

I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance…

Alison Moyet

Image

New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another session on…

Diplo

Image

The fact of the matter is that the Internet has brought together millions of people who trust one another for reasons that are unknown.

Ben Huh

Image

Everything about Washington is inconsistent, because they say one thing and do another, which is what my opponent, Claire McCaskill, is very, very good…

Sarah Steelman

Image

In Tunisia, the so-called Yasmin revolution has led to the installation of a relatively moderate Islamic government. Whether or not that means democracy will,…

Martin Van Creveld