Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.
John Updike
Related And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. OVID It's not like it's a skyscraper in the middle of a subdivision. They all blend together. BRAD KORTE If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem. JOHN UPDIKE John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike... LAURA LIPPMAN Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON Not true, ... They were best friends. They were together all the time, all four of them. John and Pa... CYNTHIA LENNON All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One can envision using similar technique to produce stacked thin slices of integrated circuits into ... MING WU There are only two kinds of lamp shade customers. Ones who want exactly what they had before and one... SHIRLEY ALLEN When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD The one thing about our team that I like is how all the grades and ages blend together. They all sup... DAVIS EIDAHL We stitch together our days and edit out our nights. JULIA LEIGH We're purple. I wouldn't label this team, because they do it all - they play with finesse, they defe... GARRETT SMITH Generally expatriate packages these days do not have all the bells and whistles on they used to and ... CHRIS ADAMS Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people togethe... BURNING SPEAR She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seem... VANNETTA CHAPMAN I think that there's the Kim Kardashian brand and the Kardashian brand. I think they blend toget... KIM KARDASHIAN I'm glad there were no fatal technical flaws, and that they were able to find the money after all. B... MARK SYKES They confuse us all. They all look alike. BEN JOHNSON (SHERIFF) Do not overlook them. They received an at-large bid, but they are not to be taken lightly. They are ... CARROLL LAHAYE Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him. ORSON SCOTT CARD Any team that has Shade as their leader is bound to have a pretty directionless quality. But when Cy... PETER MILLIGAN The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean... WILLIAM GODWIN Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. JEAN GIRAUDOUX They cover for each other if one makes a mistake, ... Karen knows every song he's going to sing back... DON FRASER To Victoria Beckham: So why exactly do they call you Posh? NAOMI CAMPBELL Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commo... JOHN SELDEN They may not think that that's a problem, but John Kerry thinks deficits do matter. JASON FURMAN If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in ... BRYCE COURTENAY But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike. DAVID DINKINS They laugh alike, they walk alike, at times they even talk alike. PATTY DUKE Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: l... DALLIN H. OAKES Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. ANTONIO PORCHIA But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. Al... C.S. LEWIS Ah! Valere, all men say the same thing to women; all are alike in their words; their actions only sh... MOLIERE Diseases do not know borders. They do not know borders between villages. They do not know borders be... DR. DAVID NABARRO I assumed that the collaboration between the writer and artist would be fairly intimate, a lot of ba... CHARLIE HUSTON But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness ... ARUNDHATI ROY They're just such a tight-knit group. I think it was very special to them because they knew that the... GREG HEATH These grass fires are getting very deadly. They burn homes down, they kill people, so this is not so... DAVE ABERCROMBIE John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another for... M. H. ABRAMS People don't understand that not only can they make a difference, it's their responsibility to do so FLORENCE ROBINSON Such was the number of the barbarians, that when they shot forth their arrows the sun would be darke... HERODOTUS All five starters made all- district and all-city, and four of them made one or another all-state te... GARY PIPPEN Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word wi... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES That's what good spies do. They blend in and make friends. JOSE BASULTO Winter strips the leaves and the beautiful leaves grow old. No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no b... LILY CHATTERJEE Not only do our friends see us having a beer often, they catch us skiing together. It's embarrassing... MATT STONE you can never really change someone, only shade who they realy are. DONALD C HALL The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS I listen to Billy Joel. He is fabulous. I saw him with Elton John when they toured together, it was ... MARLEE MATLIN Unfortunately it is so common that they all blur together. DAVID O'LEARY I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers as wri... MADELEINE L'ENGLE There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of... H. RAP BROWN Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John U... CYNTHIA OZICK The silence when they do not want to tell you the facts: Discrete Silence. The silence when they do ... ANTONY JAY During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some poli... CONAN O'BRIEN Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away fro... FRIDA KAHLO Ideas do not have to be correct in order to be good; its only necessary that, if they do fail, they ... ROBERT ROSEN They need a couple of days off, and so do I. CINDY ENGLAND What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last fore... MELANIE BENJAMIN Alone we can only do so much, together we can do it All! FRANK ARMSTRONG That's not something that a judge would do lightly. BRAD LYERLA Do you think it will truly come to battle between them? If they should come to some accord—” GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's ... ALAN CHEUSE We knew they weren't going to go away. They came back from 22 points down at their Regional, so we t... ALONZO SLEDGE I not only think that they are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing, and I t... HARRY BELAFONTE Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that ... HAZRAT ALI IBN ABU-TALIB A.S You're watching the insurgents develop more sophisticated methods of attack, and more sophisticated ... ANTHONY CORDESMAN I had days thinking I am at loose, regretting why I took that chance. I had nights dreaming what if ... IRFA RAHAT I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Very rarely are they separated. Usually at the beginning of the training we do a couple of shootings... JAMES UPHAM What are they going to do for an encore? ... Anyone else they choose is going to pale in comparison. CHARLES COOK All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends... CORRIE TEN BOOM Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. HENRI POINCARE Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything HENRI POINCARE They all handle the puck. They all help each other get the puck. They have a tremendous work ethic, ... JOE BATTISTA It's a powerful thing, this old Pink Floyd business. Look at all the stories that followed Live 8—... DAVID GILMOUR I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Awesome. They worked ahead all weekend and that's exactly what we need them to do. HOLLY VAN VLYMEN All or one together, however they decide to do it. ELAINE MAKATURA On the calendar, all days look the same, but they do not carry the same weight. RICHARD PAUL EVANS Words alike flames, they burn. leaving nothing, not even blood, but ashes, which are never identifie... CHARLES ADRIAN PACIS If criminals wanted to grind justice to a halt, they could do it by banding together and all pleadin... DOROTHY WRIGHT WILSON One thing people do wrong is they find a shape they like and put it on all the lamps in the room. Bu... BARBARA EBERLEIN Many of the things that are proposed are things that we already do and that customers find useful. I... BILL MCCLOSKEY Those 18 girls, the experience they had together and just getting to know each other so well and lit... BROOKE VAN LANEN And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not n... JOHN GREEN They can make hundreds of slices of each individual grain. STEVEN SIMON We blend together well; it's a nice fit. BRENDAN FENNELL We'd actually met him once when he was at Cambridge. Then Terry Gilliam came along and started doing... TERRY JONES Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." But do they deserve fo... ALEXANDER JACKSON Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's ... ALAN YOUNG All are not merry that dance lightly. GEORGE HERBERT They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho... LOUISE ERDRICH They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho... LOUISE ERDRICH
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