John Gardner Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
-
I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
-
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
-
It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
-
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
-
No decent career was ever founded on a public.
-
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
-
The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
-
I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
-
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
-
I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
-
For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
-
The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
-
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
-
Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
-
Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
-
With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
-
I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
-
I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.
-
There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.
-
Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
-
Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.
-
I always dreamed of playing a night match on Arthur Ashe Stadium. It's a dream come true for me.
-
Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
