Jeffery Gardner Quotes

You are going to love the sports here. Snow skiing and water-skiing and rock climbing and all kinds of extreme sports. I give you full permission to hurl yourself off stuff. ~ Cynthia Hand

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud. ~ Chris Gardner

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

This only is denied the Gods: the power to remake the past. - ARISTOTLE ~ Jeffery Deaver

The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time. ~ Ava Gardner

Hoping never done nothing. It wanting that do it. You got to want to win so bad you can taste it. If you want to win bad enough you win. ~ Leonard Gardner

appraisal was evident in his glance. "Well, then," he said, "let's hear about ~ Erle Stanley Gardner

It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart. ~ Howard Gardner

Great idea," I said. "Call the police. Call the fucking police. ~ Ava Gardner

Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl's values ~ Ava Gardner

Rhyme's eyes closed. His head dipped. But only a few millimeters. As with most great men, Lincoln Rhyme's gestures of defeat were very subtle. ~ Jeffery Deaver

who have been trained ~ Thom Gardner

Everything in the past is memory and everything in the future is imagination. Those're both illusions – memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that's completely real is this one instant of the present – and that's constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of our life's illusory. ~ Jeffery Deaver

We're ruthless bastards and we always play dirty. ~ James Alan Gardner

Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out. ~ John Gardner

My mother would watch him and sigh. He's a young soul, she would say, with a tender heart. She worried for him. But never for me. I was the happy one. At least, that's how the story goes. ~ Lisa Gardner

What I can do, I will do. What I can't do, I will surrender to the one that can. ~ E'yen A. Gardner

If my soul was filled with anything, then it was dust and the ashes of possibilities. ~ Sally Gardner

If I were to disclose all their rituals, I think that it would be easy to prove that witches are not diabolists; but the oaths are solemn and the witches are my friends. I would not want to hurt their feelings. They have secrets which to them are sacred. They have good reason for their secrecy. ~ Gerald Gardner

I had to admit, sometimes I sensed the strangeness of the world tugging at my sleeve, like a mischievous toddler, and I wanted to follow it. ~ Troy H. Gardner

I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas. ~ James Alan Gardner

What the young writer needs to develop, to achieve his goal of becoming a great artist, is not a set of aesthetic laws but artistic mastery. He cannot hope to develop mastery all at once; it involves too much. But if he pursues his goal in the proper way, he can approach it much more rapidly than he would if he went at it hit-or-miss, and the more successful he is at each stage along the way, the swifter his progress is likely to be. Invariably when the beginning writer hands in a short story to his writing teacher, the story has many things about it that mark it as amateur. But almost as invariably, when the beginning writer deals with some particular, small problem, such as description of a setting, description of a character, or brief dialogue that has some definite purpose, the quality of the work approaches the professional. Having written some small thing very well, he begins to learn confidence. ~ John Gardner

Forgiveness in God's eyes is unconditional; no matter what you have done, you can receive forgiveness. ~ E'yen A. Gardner

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

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 purpose of human life is the dissolution of the soul and the revelation of the Spirit. ~ Ian Gardner

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house. ~ Jeffery Deaver

Nice tree, he says.
That boy has unexpected depth. ~ Cynthia Hand

Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce. ~ John Gardner

Dual-income families have turned out a batch of superpredators who have no sympathy or remorse. Blast 'em up on Nintendo; blast 'em up on the streets. ~ Lisa Gardner

You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go by and none of them belong to you. ~ Herb Gardner

Still he was uncertain. He wondered if everything had gone as it should. Was that all there was to it? Perhaps it had been celebrated out of proportion because there was nothing else to live for. ~ Leonard Gardner

But maybe all it needs is a moment to change the course of history. ~ Sally Gardner

You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money. ~ Erle Stanley Gardner

pugilist who won every match was dull, she ~ Ashley Gardner

Love is nothing but a pain in the ass ~ Ava Gardner

I have one weapon," Mason said. "It's a powerful weapon. But sometimes it's hard to wield it because you don't know just where to grab hold of it."
"What weapon is that?" Della Street asked.
"The truth," Mason said. ~ Erle Stanley Gardner

The world resists me and I resist the world. ~ John Gardner

No fiction can have real interest if the central character is not an agent struggling for his or her own goals but a victim, subject to the will of others. (Failure to recognize that the central character must act, not simply be acted upon, is the single most common mistake in the fiction of beginners.) ~ John Gardner

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ~ John W. Gardner

If you are not yourself, you have nothing to offer the world but a cheap imitation of someone else. ~ E'yen A. Gardner

A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship. ~ Martin Gardner

Bad news. If you can see it coming, you brace yourself; you weigh the outcome. But there's always that niggling voice, that voice of hope whispering, 'Maybe it's good news.' Whether you can admit it or not, that little whisper is a potent thing. ~ Lily Gardner

Traumatic events can be compared to facing a demon pitcher on the baseball diamond. Life tells us we have to take a swing at the ball, but engaging this demon comes with consequences. If you make first base, you'll feel the need to sleep. Not so bad. Second, you'll want to forget it all happened. Don't we all? But third base brings the onset of madness and if you step off the plate there's only death. In the great game of life, sometimes it's better to strike out than hit a home run. After all, you can relax in the Dugout with friends until you're ready to knock the demon out of the park."

Alexander Rollins, Keystrokes ~ Michael Gardner

The seat of power in the twenty-first century is information, not oil or geography. ~ Jeffery Deaver

It is important for leaders to know their stories; to get them straight; to communicate them effectively, particularly to those who are in the thrall of rival stories; and, above all, to embody in their lives the stories that they tell. ~ Howard E. Gardner