N. T. Wright Quotes

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

I broke my arm trying to fold a bed. It wasn't the kind that folds.

To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'

I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across and touch other objects in the set up.

My still-life painting has more to do with light and shadow than with the objects themselves.

I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

Half the people you know are below average.

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine.

My friend Winnie is a procrastinator. He didn't get his birth mark til he was eight years old.

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

Even though I'm a realist, I try to let the medium show and allow it a certain degree of freedom.

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?

Clones are people two.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it's dangerous.

I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates".

I took my dog for a walk... all the way from New York to Florida... I said to him "There now you're done."

Women... can't live with 'em...... can't shoot 'em

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

All the plants in my house are dead - I shot them last night. I was teasing them by watering them with ice cubes.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time.

Today I dialed a wrong number... The other person said, "Hello?" and I said, "Hello, could I speak to Joey?"... They said, "Uh... I don't think so... he's only 2 months old." I said, "I'll wait."

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself.

Next time you see an unblemished expanse of grass, think about the chemicals that probably got dumped in your vicinity to create it. Are you grateful for that?

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.

think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.

It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a sense of life itself.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.'

I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

Childhood was very nice. The only thing wrong was that I was so introverted, everything became a big deal... 'Oh, no, here comes the bus. Where am I gonna sit on the bus?'

I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.