A Quote by John Updike

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

John Updike

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Appeal Charm Fire Hearth Irresistible Primitive Secretly Television Understood

Quote Author

John Updike
American - Novelist
March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

Heart may still be the fire in hearth but I'm suddenly too cold to continue, and besides, there's no hearth here anyway and it's the end of June. Thursday. Almost noon. And all the buttons on my corduroy coat are gone. I don't know why. I'm sorry Hailey. I don't know what to do.

Mark Z. Danielewski

I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?

Imogen Heap

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Stephen Leacock

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Lamb

A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill in horticulture or power of purse, and which is beyond explaining. It is born of sensitive and very personal preferences yet its appeal is almost universal.

Louise Wilder

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

Rudyard Kipling

There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Fred Astaire never let you see him sweat, but he sweetened his deceptively casual virtuosity with just enough charm to make it irresistible.

Terry Teachout

James Corden is a rare entertainment force who combines irresistible charm, warmth, and originality with a diverse range of creative instincts and performance talent.

Nina Tassler

If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.

George Stillman Hillard

Reese Witherspoon is as cute as a button on Raggedy Ann's overalls, but irresistible raw sex appeal is not one of her qualities.

Roger Ebert

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

Georges Braque

Donald Trump was underrated, but he understood social media and he understood reality television.

Van Jones

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en!