T.S. Wright Quotes

There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.

The stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yard! America's chickens are coming home to roost!

America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.

I turned my air conditioner the other way around and it got cold out. The weatherman said 'I don't understand it. It was supposed to be 80 degrees out today.' I said, oops

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn't give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn't seem right.

My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.

I had amnesia once or twice.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Christ's resurrection doesn't mean escaping from the world; it means mission to the world based on Jesus's lordship over the world.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I kept locking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 foot stepladder with a coat hanger.

Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?

I took a lie detector test the other day. No, I didn't.

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day

I once locked my keys out of my car. I had to break out of my car with a coat hanger.

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

I'd rather attempt something I'm not sure I can do

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.

My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies

If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk

If Dracula can't see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are like life, and I throw them into my head and some of it comes out as humor.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution.