Showing posts with label John Updike. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Updike. Show all posts

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Quotaria

Dreams come true; without that possibility,
nature would not incite us to have them.
- John Updike


Washington is the only place where
sound travels faster than light.
- CVR Thompson

You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood,
because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
- Carrie Fisher

The past was erased, the erasure
was forgotten, the lie became truth.
- George Orwell [1984]

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often
turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods


You can go a long way with a
smile. You can go a lot farther
with a smile and a gun.
- Al Capone

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Quotaria

"Genius is more often found in a
cracked pot than in a whole one."
- E. B. White


"After all is said and done,
more is said than done."
- Aesop

"The object in life is not to be on the side of
the majority, but to be insane in such a useful
way that they can't commit you."
- Mark Edwards


"A healthy male adult bore consumes each
year one and a half times his own weight
in other people's patience."
- John Updike


"You are remembered for the rules you break."
- Douglas MacArthur


"We need a president who's fluent
in at least one language."
- Buck Henry