« All Present Like Quotes
·
John Gardner's Page
Present Like Quotes by John Gardner
1 Present Like quote by John Gardner
More Quotes by John Gardner
John Gardner has 44 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,…
-
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading…
-
So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.
-
The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
-
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
-
They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.
-
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living,…
-
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well…
See all 44 quotes by John Gardner »
More Present Like Quotes
Popular Present Like quotes from across the collection:
-
The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing.…
— Anne Michaels
-
We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.
— Robert Grudin
-
The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the…
— Manolo Blahnik
-
The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.
— Walter Savage Landor
-
Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know. And…
— Stephen Chbosky
-
Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
-
absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
— Audrey Niffenegger
See all Present Like Quotes »
Browse John Gardner Quotes by Category