John Gardner Quotes

• Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign.

  John Gardner

  Topics in Art

• We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

  John Gardner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Really, Images

• One must be a little crazy to write a good novel.

  John Gardner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crazy, Good

• There is still no cure for the common birthday.

  John Gardner

  Topics in Birthday

• When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

  John Gardner

  Tags in Government, Elections

• Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.

  John Gardner

  Topics in Leadership

• Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers.

  John Gardner

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Criticism

• The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

  John Gardner

  Topics in Democracy, Honesty, Politics

  Tags in Government

• One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He’s good, nobody can touch Him.

  John Gardner

  Topics in Religion

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Today's Anniversary - 12th November

Births

• 1666 - Mary Astell
• 1840 - Auguste Rodin
• 1915 - Roland Barthes
• 1877 - Warren R. Austin
• 1944 - Al Michaels

Deaths

• 1867 - Charles DuBois
• 1976 - Walter Piston
• 1981 - William Franklin Beedle Jr.
• 1994 - Wilma Rudolph
• 1793 - Lord George Gordon