N. T. Wright Quotes

Why are there five syllables in the word “monosyllabic”?

I named my dog Stay, so I can say, 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.

Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

I guess I've always been really strong minded about what I wear; I've never followed what other people consider fashionable or what styles are happening at the time.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

I like Destiny's Child.

Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park in the passing lane?

Even snakes are afraid of snakes.

I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4.

I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.

"I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

Do Roman paramedics refer to IV’s as '4's'?

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

Do married people live longer than single people or does it just SEEM longer?

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

Someone like you makes the sun shine brighter. Someone like you makes a sigh half a smile. Someone like you makes my troubles much lighter. Someone like you make life seem worthwhile.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

As soon as baseball becomes a job, as soon as I stop caring, as soon as the smile goes away, I'll hang up my spikes and do something else.

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

You just do it one step at a time.

I believe one day the distance between myself and God will / disappear.

For a while I didn't have a car . . . I had a helicopter . . . no place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running. [slow glance upward]

Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

I had my coat hangers spayed.

Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved

It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.

Some people have everything Other people don't But everything don't mean a thing If it ain't the thing you want

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that

It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.

When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club in my hands.

99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.