N. T. Wright Quotes

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.

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

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

All Christian language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a mist.

A man thinks all dust stays outdoors.

I don't care how wonderful heaven is, I won't be content waiting thirty years for you.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

The reality of it is you have to be over the top if you want to be noticed.

I think everyone sometimes feels intimidated by themselves when they see themselves on the screen.

Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.

I like France quite a lot, and I like Italy.

I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

The church was made for mission-God's mission

We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

I don't care how much I'm talked about or hyped. It's still up to me to go out and perform.

I'm very confident in what I do, but I'd like to think I don't ever show any kind of cockiness or overconfidence.

Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.

Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable.

I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man.

Happy endings come in different packages

Modern, not bottom-dwelling literature like a carp.

I did not call for the extermination of people, but of ideas.

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

I've followed my voice rather than forcing it to emerge.

If I can make something real and it's appreciated and accessible to other people, I'm happy.

People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.

in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.

it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

I try to be a person of faith.

The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

The beautiful thing about serialized drama is that the further you go, the deeper you go.

Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy

Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.

Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only fairly recently that the church has had this great divide.

Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.

I have met many Roman Catholic theologians who will emphasize as much as any good Protestant preacher that everything comes from the love and grace of God.

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.