John Shelby Spong Quotes

I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to play golf.

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• Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Live
  • School

• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Up
  • Find

• It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Good
  • Family
  • You

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • School
  • Reason
  • Prison

• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • Job
  • Help

• I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • Work
  • You
  • Model

• I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Man
  • Gay

• I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Criticism
  • Comfortable
  • Okay

• My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Life
  • Road
  • Magic

• I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • High
  • Father
  • Daughter

• Being a celebrity is a business.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Business
  • Being
  • Celebrity

• Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Frame

• Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

  

  Queen Christina
  • More
  • Fools
  • Wicked

• Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Death
  • Law

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Life
  • Work
  • Friends

• When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Together
  • Words
  • Poetry

• I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • May

• We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Fighting
  • Create
  • Murder

• Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • She
  • Character
  • Book

• I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to play golf.

  

  John Shelby Spong
  • Long
  • Heaven
  • Golf