Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
God spoke to Balaam through his ass. I believe God still speaks through asses today. So if God should choose to speak through you, you needn't think too highly of yourself.
Quotes to Explore
-
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
-
To be is to do.
-
You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
-
I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
-
I often reread books I have written.
-
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
-
I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
-
What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
-
Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
-
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
-
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
-
Social Security is fundamentally strong.
-
Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
-
On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
-
People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
-
We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
-
I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
-
I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
-
People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
-
From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
-
O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!
-
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
-
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
-
God spoke to Balaam through his ass. I believe God still speaks through asses today. So if God should choose to speak through you, you needn't think too highly of yourself.
