N.D. Wilson Quotes

If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.)

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• My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Know
  • Story
  • Fix

• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • First
  • Special
  • Bar

• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Book

• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Life
  • Wise

• It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Trying
  • Mom
  • Challenge

• I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • You
  • Everything
  • Director

• If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Winning
  • Things
  • Habit

• I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Attention
  • Stories

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Goal
  • Journey
  • Matters

• I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Life
  • Live
  • Women

• There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

  

  Plato
  • World
  • Power
  • Political

• GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: But Dr. Dobson, excuse me for a second. You use the word hate. You said that he's a 'God's people hater.' How do you back that up?

  

  James Dobson
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Political

• If God gives you (or makes you) a joke, what are you meant to do in response? (Receive it. Laugh.)

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • God
  • Giving
  • Son