"I would write ads for deodorants or labels……" — John Updike

"I would write ads for deodorants or labels for catsup bottles if I had to."

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339 Quotes by John Updike

John Updike has 339 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 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…
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…
"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…

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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas.… — Jensen Ackles
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it… — Alan Ball
Ten bajillion product ads notwithstanding, your looks are another thing that's basically genetic. — Martha Beck
Just because your ad looks good is no insurance that it will get looked at. How many people do you… — William Bernbach
Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. — William Bernbach
The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to… — Jeff Bezos
Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide… — David Boies
I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world. — Leo Burnett
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write… — Leo Burnett
The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind… — Jackie Chan
I believe that an orderly universe, one indifferent to human preoccupations, in which everything has an explanation even if we… — Richard Dawkins

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