"Without books, we might just melt into the……" — John Updike
"Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips."
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339 Quotes by John Updike
John Updike has 339 quotes on this site.
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You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity,…
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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
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I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my…
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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
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Without rain, there would be no life.
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin…
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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not…
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...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive.…
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More Airwaves Quotes
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Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although…
— Dave Barry
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
— Tony Campolo
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You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was…
— Jimmy Webb
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It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all…
— James Marsters
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If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would…
— Tony Campolo
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Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound…
— Julius Lester
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A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink…
— Gore Vidal
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Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the…
— John Ringo
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There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
— Joe Elliott
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I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock…
— John Lahr
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The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.
— Robert Waterman McChesney
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