"The literary scene is a kind of Medusaâ€™s raft, small and sinking, and oneâ€™s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers."

--

John Updike

#Trying Quotes #Medusa Quotes #Steps Quotes

“We now live in an amazing digital world, and television is firmly part of that brave new world. Television is still the way to reach the most citizens and talk to them â€“ and with them - about how the EU affects their lives. It's still the way to bring people together â€“ to laugh, to debate, to learn. In a world that takes a faster and faster pace, it is nice to know you can slow down once in a while with a good TV programme.”
“Satellite photography in the 1970's gave rise to the long-range weather forecast, a month at a time. This in turn gave rise to the observation that the long-range weather forecast was wrong most of the time. In turn, this gave rise to the dropping of the long-range weather forecast and to the admission that really accurate forecasting could only cover the next day or two, and not always then.”
“The most skillful is Thierry Henry, he has impressed me the most. He's played a great tournament(Euro '00). He has the pace of Anelka, and the sense of Trezeguet. He's got something that no French player has ever had. He can do everything: from scoring goals, to giving assists, crossing and creating space for other players, and he fights for every ball. I've never see a player in France like him”
“Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.”
“The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.”
“During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?”
“As an actor, you have to have your history.”
“I love winning and any team I'm on, I expect to win.”

You may also like:

Ernest Hemingway
Author
J. D. Salinger
Writer
John Cheever
Novelist
Joyce Carol Oates
Author
Norman Mailer
Novelist
Philip Roth
Novelist
Saul Bellow
Writer
Thomas Pynchon
Novelist
William Faulkner
Writer