John Gardner Quotes
One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.
Quotes to Explore
-
Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
-
I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
-
You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
-
I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
-
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
-
You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
-
Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
-
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
-
The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
-
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
-
All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
-
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
-
'Mahershala' is my nickname.
-
Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
-
I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
-
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
-
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
-
Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
-
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
-
Being a mentor and a leader, I've always urged guys, if you're ever allowed to be a free agent, to take advantage of that opportunity.
-
Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.
-
The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
-
One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.
