Hy Gardner Quotes

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.

Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.

One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

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.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

I've always grown up as a tomboy and don't see myself as much of a girly girl, but when the time comes, it's fun to play dress up and embrace my femininity.

I see myself as a huge dork that laughs at my own jokes and forgets to shower sometimes.

Sometimes you only get to win one championship.

My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.

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

We're all in this together - when one writer succeeds, all writers succeed. I love discovering new authors. I think we need to take care of each other and talk about craft and nurture talent.

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

Everyone should say what they wanted. It saved time.

When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.

God was in the details.

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.

Who do you love? It's a question anyone should be able to answer. A question that defines a life, creates a future, guides most minutes of one's days. Simple, elegant encompassing. Who do you love?

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

Goodness its the kind of work I come to the Fringe to see

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

As I have often said, electrons and gerbils don't cheat. People do.

The violence and double-talk in the Alice books probably does no harm to children, but the novels should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.

There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.

There is enough reality in my life, so I try not to read things that have too much stress.

Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don’t benefit from their crumb.

Wikipedia only works in practice. In theory, it's a total disaster.

If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia.

The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me.

Sometimes you have to forsake what you want, to get what you want.

When I see God I see Beauty, I see Love, I see Joy, I see Peace and I see You. God loves us let us love one another.

We may be helpless to stop bad things from happening, but perhaps God leaves us signs and road maps to help us recover and reconnect, provided we know where to look.

We must surrender ourselves to God, not our assignments.

Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.

It was who they were, and it was who they always would be. They would remain forever in lust and forever in love, for theirs was a love that transcended body and mind. Theirs was a love of the soul.

It take faith to follow your dreams and courage to reach them.