Walter Brueggemann Quotes

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

Walter Brueggemann

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• Images
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• Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Energy
  • Process
  • Negative

• I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Christmas
  • Year
  • Hockey

• Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Bad
  • Worry
  • Name

• Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • You
  • Best
  • Voice

• We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Freedom
  • Realize
  • Kingdom

• A film of my life would never happen!

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Film
  • My Life

• I did a voice for this video game called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun. I had a great time, especially since I could show up in PJs and not have to worry about how I looked.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • People
  • Bad
  • Enjoy

• Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Death

• ‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.

  

  Lee Child
  • People
  • Power
  • Earth

• I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

  

  Ariel Winter
  • Trying

• Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Time
  • World
  • Financial

• I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Writing

• The real mariachis in Mexico are singers like Agustin Lara and Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete - the Golden Era of Mexican Filmmaking. Mariachis sing very soft and very beautiful. That's old-school mariachi. They are caressing the songs.

  

  Jaime Federico Said Camil Saldaña da Gama
  • Real
  • School
  • Beautiful

• You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Money
  • Happy

• The medium is the message.

  

  Marshall McLuhan

• Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.

  

  Margaret Haddix
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Perspective

• I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Sport
  • Too Much
  • Guns

• Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American.

  

  Renny Harlin
  • Action
  • Actors
  • Dollars

• I am a private guy, and at the end of the day, I only really do care about my family. That's the most important thing: my way of life, my family. Whoever is in front of that is going to get hurt.

  

  Brock Lesnar
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Nothing in Moderation We all loved him.

  

  Ernie Kovacs
  • Loved
  • Moderation

• The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

  

  Walter Brueggemann
  • Hurt
  • Images
  • Resistance