John Gardner Quotes

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

John Gardner

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• I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • God
  • Always
  • Teeth

• I get scripts and think, 'There's not enough here to get my teeth stuck into.' That's a result of studying English, where you luxuriate in these big, lush novels.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Think
  • English
  • Teeth

• I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.

  

  Nash Grier
  • People
  • Want
  • Pursue

• I've never dyed my hair, never fixed my teeth or gotten a tan.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Teeth

• The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • New
  • Tongue
  • Teeth

• You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

  

  Maggie Q
  • Up
  • Know
  • Wake Up

• Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Men
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• Got the eye of the tiger, the lion of Judah

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Eye
  • Determination
  • Lion

• Now Bart, since you broke Grandpa's teeth, he gets to break yours.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Broke
  • Teeth
  • Grandpa

• It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Believe
  • See
  • Teeth

• Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Up
  • Mind
  • She

• I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing Up

• If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Football
  • Tiger
  • Woods

• I'm just glad to see that Pete (Sampras) shut everyone up last year. That was satisfying. You can't bag on guys like Pete or Tiger (Woods) or Michael Jordan. They can play as long as they want, they can do whatever they want. Nobody should be able to tell them differently.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Up
  • Long
  • Guy

• Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.

  

  Lily King
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Ideas

• Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Moments
  • Challenges
  • Strength

• The British government has urged its citizens to abstain from alcohol at least two days a week. Or to make it easier to remember, whenever they brush their teeth.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Remember
  • Government
  • Alcohol

• Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

  

  William Osler
  • Time
  • Exercise
  • Hours

• Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Together
  • Quality
  • Plant

• When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.

  

  Abdul Qadeer Khan
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

  

  John Gardner
  • Grows
  • Teeth
  • Pursue