Updikes Jerseyville Quotes & Sayings

A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has. — Dean Bakopoulos

You could count on the fingers of one hand the number of people in the north who said to me, 'When did you leave the IRA?' — Martin McGuinness

I want to do things that shock people. I think that persona attributes more to the roles that other people may consider me for, rather than the ones I consider for myself. — T.I.

The part we play is not as we want it, but as we are made-with the genitals God gave us. — Maureen Howard

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. — E.W. Howe

She glimpsed the sexless mounds between their legs and shuddered. For some reason, she found their lack of genitals uncannily obscene, an indignity, a piece of humanity they had been denied. — Jason Heller

You had to choose between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor. You will have war. — Laurent Binet

Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop. If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step. — David Pogue

Everybody gets all worked up about trash talk but it is what it is - it's talk ... You ask any player, honestly, if trash talk's gonna affect how hard they play, because if a little trash talk affects how hard they can play, it just lets us know that they were holding back or weren't playing harder or as hard as they could. — Jason Babin

Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile. — Deepak Chopra

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it. — Paul Robeson

The "norm" for humanity is love.
Brutality is an aberration.
We are not sinners by nature.
We learn to be bad.
We are taught to stray from our good paths.
We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy. — Jack D. Forbes

Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU. — Steve Blake

When you are positive; mind thinks, when you are negative; mind thinks,
For mind can never be in balance.
It is the Self, witnessing in awareness, Centered, which observes these two. — Gian Kumar

Mission is a duty about which one must say 'Woe to me if I do not evangelize' (1 Corinthians 9:16) ... redemption and mission are acts of love [because] those who proclaim the Gospel participate in the charity of Christ. — Pope Benedict XVI