Tony Evans Quotes

You cannot read the Bible and ignore the political realm.

Tony Evans

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• There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Writing
  • Alone
  • Style

• These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Money
  • Act

• I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Body

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • You
  • View
  • Point Of View

• Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Ugly
  • Machine

• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Talk
  • Meetings
  • Fast

• Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Power
  • Politics

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Energy
  • Me
  • Audience

• I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Kids
  • Discipline
  • Tell

• That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Me

• Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me his ring. I never take it off. Now, when I go to Sicily, I don't need a passport. I just flash my ring.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Me
  • Never
  • Him

• You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Great
  • House

• I refute it thus.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy and all that kinda stuff. So I actually have the secret belief that there are enough people who would consider themselves quote-unquote "other" to support my particular taste.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • People
  • Dream
  • Political

• I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • War

• When my kid was five and playing with my camcorder. I don't like it. It makes it look fake looking, too much HD. I don't need to see your pores on TV, like why do I see your pores right here? That's not cool.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Why
  • Cool
  • Fake

• It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.

  

  Catherine Doherty
  • Life
  • Important
  • Tired

• My dad's Australian.

  

  George MacKay
  • Dad

• You cannot read the Bible and ignore the political realm.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Political
  • Bible
  • Read