91 ordspråk av John Updike

US  John Updike

John Updike föddes den 18 maart 1932 - US writer
Mer info via Google eller Bing.
 "Upon shaving off one's beard." The scissors cut the long-grown hair; the razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, bug-eyed, I stare at the forgotten boy I was.

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

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

 A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

 A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

 America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

 Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them.

 An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

 Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.

 Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.

 Art imitates nature in this: not to dare is to dwindle

 Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

 Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.

 Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism

 Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it.


Sidan 1 av 7
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Aantal gezegden is 1469544
varav 1407627 på engelska

Gezegde (1469544 st) Zoek
Categoriën (2627 st) Zoek
Auteurs (167535 st) Zoek
Afbeeldingen (4592 st)
Geboren (10495 st)
Gestorven (3318 st)
Datums (9517 st)
Landen (5315 st)
Idiom (4438 st)
Lengths
Toplists (6 st)



in




Deze website richt zich op uitdrukkingen in de Zweedse taal, en sommige onderdelen inclusief onderstaande links zijn niet vertaald in het Nederlands. Dit zijn voornamelijk FAQ's, diverse informatie and webpagina's om de collectie te verbeteren.



Här har vi samlat ordspråk i 12774 dagar!

Vad är gezegde?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!



Ord värmer mer än all världens elfiltar.

www.livet.se/gezegde




Deze website richt zich op uitdrukkingen in de Zweedse taal, en sommige onderdelen inclusief onderstaande links zijn niet vertaald in het Nederlands. Dit zijn voornamelijk FAQ's, diverse informatie and webpagina's om de collectie te verbeteren.



Här har vi samlat ordspråk i 12774 dagar!

Vad är gezegde?
Hur funkar det?
Vanliga frågor
Om samlingen
Ordspråkshjältar
Hjälp till!




Ord värmer mer än all världens elfiltar.

www.livet.se/gezegde