Nicholas Wolterstorff Quotes
The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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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.
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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.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.
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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.
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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.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.
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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.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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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.
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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.
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I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
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I'm proud of The Hangover, but to be in movies like this, which are really the only places I can get work, it's really quite the opposite of what I am. I like sensitive art-house movies. I'm not even much of a partier. I mean, I'll drink myself into oblivion alone in my car.
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The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.
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Kobe is missing out by not finding a way to become part of a system that involves giving to something larger than himself.
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... does it seem to you that it is possible to speak of Art? It would be the same as explaining love!
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The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.
