John Updike Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old John Updike quotes, John Updike sayings, and John Updike proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

We are most alive when we're in love. John Updike
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golfers become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. John Updike
The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. John Updike
For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities. John Updike
Driving is boring," Rabbit pontificates, "but it's what we do. Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went. John Updike
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. John Updike
What art offers is space—a certain breathing room for the spirit. John Updike
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. John Updike
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified. John Updike
We are most alive when we're in love. John Updike
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. John Updike
We are most alive when we're in love. John Updike
To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. John Updike
In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified. John Updike
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. John Updike
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. John Updike
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money. John Updike
We are most alive when we're in love. John Updike
Relieved after things have been put right..Similes Dictionary like they lifted a concrete block out of my belly. John Updike
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off. John Updike