"Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us…" — John Gardner

"Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers."

— John Gardner

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42 Quotes by John Gardner

John Gardner has 42 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…
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…
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might…
Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the…
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the…
I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with…
There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we…

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Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space,… — David Attenborough
We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our… — Paul Auster
In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials,… — Diane Ackerman
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. — Richard Bach
I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy… — Amitabh Bachchan
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. — Russell Baker
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not… — Russell Baker
Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most… — Simon Baker
I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We… — Lucille Ball

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