John Gardner Quotes
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.John Gardner
Quotes to Explore
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
Adam Carolla -
I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
Natalie Martinez -
Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
Barnabe Barnes -
I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
Karisma Kapoor -
Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
Valerie Plame -
Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
Naftali Bennett
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
Lata Mangeshkar -
Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
D. A. Pennebaker -
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
Karlie Kloss -
I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
Hannibal Buress -
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Saint Francis de Sales -
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
Edmund Husserl
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
Randy Newman -
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
Vikas Swarup -
I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
Samuel Dash -
We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
Walter de La Mare -
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De Angelis
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Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.
Harry S Truman -
To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.
D. James Kennedy -
When I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted. Whether or not it actually happens, it changes a culture, and that's part of what we're trying to do here.
Amy Klobuchar -
I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.
Rick Perry -
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.
John Gardner