Talman Gardner Quotes & Sayings

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company. — Nigel Short

If you only try to do the things where you win, then you'll never try to do anything worth doing. — Myles Horton

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor. — Kathryn Hahn

From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own. — Tori Amos

Does God judge us by appearances? I Suspect that He does. — W. H. Auden

I remember when I was in high school I didn't have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me. — Marilyn Monroe

Levin resolved the first question at once, with extraordinary ease, though it had seemed so difficult to him before. — Leo Tolstoy

I've always liked speed. I own a car that I shouldn't be talking about because I'm an environmentalist, but the 1955 Porsche Spyder 550 RS is the finest sports car ever made. — Robert Redford

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain. — Michael E. Mann

If you come to any of my live shows, you'll see, it's very frenetic. I have the attention span of a gnat. — Howie Mandel