N. T. Wright Quotes

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.

When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.

I got a new dog. He's a paranoid retriever. He brings back everything because he's not sure what I threw him.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

They say you're not supposed to put metal in a microwave oven. They're right.

Yesterday, my eyeglass prescription ran out.

Why isn't the number 11 pronounced onety one?

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.

always remember your unique, just like everone else

I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?

I've never had a stylist, and I've always chosen my own clothes.

Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Suddenly I realize That if I stepped out of my body I would break Into blossom.

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

I worked in a health food store once. A guy asked me, 'If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.