John Ortberg Quotes
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
-
An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
-
You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
-
A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
-
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
-
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
-
I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
-
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
-
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
-
I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
-
I am from Karnal, India.
-
For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
-
I think the art fair is very much a form of urbanism. I think something really happens to the cities when such a fair happens. The city becomes an exhibition; it's amazing.
-
Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
-
Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
-
I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
-
I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
-
The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
-
Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
-
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
-
Never try to copy other writers, and never try to have a formula. It has to come from your heart and soul.
-
I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.
-
On television, you have an intimate moment with the camera. In theater, you are making something live with people there. My brain doesn't understand that you don't get another take ever. I'm finally learning on TV that you can do something over if you make a mistake.
-
Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.
