A. N. Wilson Quotes
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
Quotes to Explore
-
People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
-
I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
-
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
-
Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
-
I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
-
If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
-
There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
-
It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
-
There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
-
I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
-
Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.
-
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
-
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
-
A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
-
Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
-
I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.
-
I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
-
I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
-
The longing to behold this pre-established harmony of phenomena and theoretical principles, is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ...
-
Whenever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators." But they went on with the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.
-
Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.
-
I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.
-
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan harbor incredible promise for America once they forge an effective partnership.
-
The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'
