N. T. Wright Quotes

Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?

Hermits have no peer pressure.

We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

What a nice night for an evening.

I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.

I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

OK, so what's the speed of dark?

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

I take positives out of negatives all the time.

I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote".

Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun.

Being born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in the very rural parts of Kansas led me to believe that everything was simple, everything made sense and that anything was possible.

I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, "Got any shoes you’re not using?

It’s up there, and you can see the front of it. But what it is isn’t what you’re looking at. It’s behind what you’re looking at.

It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

My doctor told me I shouldn't work out until I'm in better shape. I told him, 'All right; don't send me a bill until I pay you.'

I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.

Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit .

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn’t doing what I was doing.

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.

I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property.

I played 100 shows before I got paid