N. T. Wright Quotes

Whose cruel idea was it for the word “lisp” to have an “s” in it?

When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

I only ever wanted to be an actress, not a star.

Why isn’t the word “phonetically” spelled with an “f”?

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions.

There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'

Every time you ride, your either teaching or un-teaching your horse.

This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

What do you say when you feel your life is taken right from your chest, even though I miraculously find myself still breathing?

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!

The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.

I never coached Sachin Tendulkar, I gave him gentle advice when he asked for it.

Bring out the nature of the materials. Let their nature intimately into your scheme.

They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target

My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it's unbelievably clear.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?

The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you see the stop sign?" I said, "Yeah, but I don't believe everything I read"

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are possible, options are not shut down, new creation can happen.

I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns.

All literature is protest.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.

I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'