N. T. Wright Quotes

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road. It said, "What for?"

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.

the most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one's interest. It is a suicide machine.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.

No house should ever be on any hill... It should be of the hill.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear my liver on my pant leg.

I played 100 shows before I got paid

I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.

Now I know why the Lord took his day off on Sunday. That must be the day he personally greets his favorites.

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

I made a chocolate cake with white chocolate. Then I took it to a potluck. I stood in line for some cake. They said, "Do you want white cake or chocolate cake?" I said, "yes."

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

I forgot and left the lighthouse on all night. Next day the sun wouldn't rise.

Smoking cures weight problems, eventually.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the world and remember, it will be a poet, not a scientist.

You'd better stay determined, because that's how our ancestors got us where we are.

I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.

After eating, do amphibians need to wait an hour before getting out of the water?

Art thrives on society and society thrives on its art.

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

There should not be one new dime in tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires as long as millions of children in America are poor, hungry, uneducated and without health coverage.

Price above Principle makes you a Prostitute.

What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

I saw a man with a wooden leg and a real foot.

It usually helps me write by reading - somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?

I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised

If heat rises, then heaven must be hotter than hell

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?

I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.