Nicholas Wolterstorff Quotes

The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

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• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Change

• A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Church
  • Heaven
  • Never

• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Action
  • Lies

• I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Fun
  • Friend
  • Working

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Car

• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • May

• One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Country
  • Book

• Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Important
  • Money
  • Happy

• A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Think
  • Vegan

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Smart
  • Need
  • Everything

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Family
  • Listening

• Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Free

• The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • World
  • Good

• If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Support
  • Purpose
  • Population

• We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Give
  • Accept
  • Insignificant

• My typical morning involves some time on the treadmill, but obviously I skip that a lot. Mostly, I wake up, check my email, then get to work on the various interviews and questions and phone calls that come with being an author.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Whether you're doing Shakespeare or Disney, good work is good work.

  

  Jonathan Tucker
  • Good
  • Work
  • Disney

• Only in acting I'm going by Joanna JoJo Levesque. In singing, just JoJo. But the reason we wanted to go with JoJo Levesque is most people know me as JoJo. People that are familiar with me would still be like, 'Oh, that's JoJo.'

  

  JoJo
  • People
  • Singing

• The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

  

  Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • Art
  • Missing