Erika Gardner Quotes

A miracle is no less glorious for having previously happened ~ Erika Gardner

They hacked down trees widening rings around their central halls and blistered the land with peasant huts and pigeon fences till the forest looked like an old dog dying of mange. they thinned out the game, killed birds for sport, set accidental fire that would burn for days. their sheep killed hedges, snipped valleys bare, and their pigs nosed up the very roots of what might have grown. hrothgar's tribe made boats to drive farther north and west. there was nothing to stop the advance of man. huge boars fled at the click of a harness. wolves would cower in the glens like foxes when they caught that deadly scent. i was filled with a wordless, obscurely murderous unrest. ~ John Gardner

You're a few fries short of being a happy meal. ~ Lynn Gardner

It's ok to FAIL it's not ok to Quit ~ Chris Gardner

More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery. ~ John W. Gardner

An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten. ~ Gardner Dozois

There are harsher things I could say, things I've compiled and archived, each with a catalog card. ~ Erika Swyler

Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes. ~ John W. Gardner

Goodness its the kind of work I come to the Fringe to see ~ Lyn Gardner

The floor had become a sea and the bed a ship, seen from a great distance. I could hear their voices calling me from far away. It lasted a minute or less. Maybe I dreamed it. Maybe I did not. It was an image that came to haunt me, and I have often wondered what would have happened if I had done as I was told and left the silver shoes alone. Would everything then have been alright? ~ Sally Gardner

He was saner than anyone --had fallen out of the world of illusion: love, interesting work, hope for the future. ~ John Gardner

For the loot, honey, for the loot. ~ Ava Gardner

Out in the fog, weary, yet buoyant from the drinks, his mind dulled along with his aches and his energy returning, Tully was free of the sense of impending ordeal that had been with him for weeks. He felt whole, self-sufficient, felt his life had at last opened up and that now nothing stood between him and the future's infinite possibilities. ~ Leonard Gardner

Circe's got everything on you, bitch. ~ Alyse M. Gardner

Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man's nature to make the same mistakes over and over. ~ Erika Johansen

All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be. ~ John Gardner

the front doors. Flashbulbs flashed. A roar rose up from the crowd at the sign of fresh activity. Then Rainie caught a new sound - the faint beating of helicopters bearing down upon them. The medevac choppers had finally arrived to carry the wounded away. And Rainie couldn't help thinking that it would be much later before the ME's office came for the bodies. Officer Luke Hayes was thirty-six years old, balding, and shorter than most women. His trim build, however, was a compact one hundred fifty pounds that turned many ladies' heads and became useful in a fight. In Rainie's opinion, however, Luke's biggest asset was his steely blue eyes. She ~ Lisa Gardner

Mariella felt as if there were signs all around her that losing what you loved was worse than never having it to begin with. ~ Erika Robuck

I wish the death of one could bring back another. ~ Alyse M. Gardner

Years ago I decided that the greatest need in our Country was Art ... We were a very young country and had very few opportunities of seeing beautiful things, works of art ... So, I determined to make it my life's work if I could. ~ Isabella Stewart Gardner

When he fell down the stairs, he told people he'd had a stroke. He was just pissed out of his skull. I love Dirk, he is such a drama queen. ~ Ava Gardner

Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something ... Many of us are fundamentalists ... because it worked pretty well for us. ~ Howard Gardner

We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older ... then it is very hard to change our minds ~ Howard Gardner

Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn't make sense to others, but it's not for them. It's what keeps you together, what keeps you going. ~ Alyse M. Gardner

So should we ban or restrict synthetic chemicals until we have a full understanding of their effects? This attractively simple idea is a lot more complicated than it appears. If pesticides were banned, agricultural yields would decline, fruits and vegetables would get more expensive and people would buy and eat fewer of them. But cancer scientists believe that fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of cancer if we eat enough of them, which most people do not do even now. And so banning pesticides in order to reduce exposure to carcinogens could potentially result in more people getting cancer. ~ Daniel Gardner

I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way. ~ Erika Christensen

A true work of fiction does all of the following things, and does them elegantly, efficiently: it creates a vivid and continuous dream in the reader's mind; it is implicitly philosophical; it fulfills or at least deals with all of the expectations it sets up; and it strikes us, in the end, not simply as a thing done but as a shining performance. ~ John Gardner

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization. ~ Howard Gardner

You know what the difference between a cardiac surgeon and God is? God doesn't think he's a cardiac surgeon. ~ Lisa Gardner

Responsible: (1) Liable to be held to account for discharging one's duty; (2) Able to make moral or rational decisions on one's own and therefore answerable for one's behavior; (3) Able to be trusted or depended upon; reliable. ~ Erika Andersen

Back in the day, no one had digital cameras. They took these pictures of me, got them developed, and then mailed them to me. ~ Erika M. Anderson

Because sometimes pain is knowing, and sometimes pain is sharing that knowledge with someone who loves you but can't do anything to help. ~ Lisa Gardner

Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much. ~ Ava Gardner

Fiction, like sculpture or painting, begins with a rough
sketch. One gets down the characters and their behavior any
way one can, knowing the sentences will have to be revised,knowing the characters' actions may change. It makes no difference
how clumsy the sketch is - sketches are not supposed
to be polished and elegant. All that matters is that, going over
and over the sketch as if one had all eternity for finishing one's
story, one improves now this sentence, now that, noticing
what changes the new sentences urge, and in the process one
gets the characters and their behavior clearer in one's head,
gradually discovering deeper and deeper implications of the
characters' problems and hopes. ~ John Gardner

A trigger point for a curse may be hard to find, but if it's there, then there's a chance to break it. There is no stopping sadness. Sadness slips through the fingers. Frank ~ Erika Swyler

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. ~ John W. Gardner

Your Majesty's rescuer said a true thing, and one that's stayed with me. Often the direct way is the right way, for reasons that can't be foreseen. ~ Erika Johansen

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual ... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously. ~ Howard Gardner

Love is where we come from. Life is finding our way back. ~ Erika Harris

By the time you've run your mind through it a hundred times, relentlessly worked out every tic of terror, it's lost its power over you ... [Soon it's] a story on a page or, more precisely, everybody's story on a page. ~ John Gardner

I either write the books or sell the jewels , and I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels. ~ Ava Gardner

Parents think the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is cancer. They're wrong; the worst thing that can happen to their five-year-old is mental illness. ~ Lisa Gardner

A large corporation is more like Australia: it's impossible
to see the whole landscape at once and there are so many things
capable of maiming or killing you. ~ Erika Hall

Be confident in who you are, regardless of what you don't have. The more confident you are, the more open you become to share your fears and challenges with your partner. ~ E'yen A. Gardner

Because there are things you do for people you've known your whole life. You let them save you, you put them in your books, and you let each other begin again, clean. ~ Erika Swyler

To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [ ... ] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [ ... ] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on.
If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living.
The true artist [ ... ] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful
~ John Gardner

She just got sad, okay? Unbearably sad. ~ Erika Swyler

A profound theme is of trifling importance if the characters knocked around by it are uninteresting, and brilliant technique is a nuisance if it pointlessly prevents us from seeing the characters and what they do. ~ John Gardner

However, if we don't confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we become bound to the "prison cell" that those lies create. ~ E'yen A. Gardner

In one scene, when I was supposed to say, "In a pig's eye you are," what came out was, "In a pig's ass you are." Old habits die awfully hard. ~ Ava Gardner