A. N. Wilson Quotes
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
Im crazy about my father, hes an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.
Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.
I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.
If there wasn't The Beach Boys and there wasn't music, I wouldn't even talk to them. But through the music I fell in love with my brothers.
I went to drama school at NYU for serious acting. So I was doing Chekov and Sam Shepard plays.
I can tell you the day The Beach Boys will no longer exist - never. We'll be on stage in wheelchairs.
Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.
IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.
The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.
I care desperately about what I do. Do I know what product I'm selling? No. Do I know what I'm doing today? No. But I'm here, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.
Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.
Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.
My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'
