Sewall Wright Quotes

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it? ~ Peter Wright

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

I've never had a stylist, and I've always chosen my own clothes. ~ Bonnie Wright

The cross stands at the heart of John's kingdom theology, which in this stunning passage is revealed as the heart of John's redemption theology, the vision of the love of God revealed in saving action in the death of his Son, the Lamb, the Messiah. ~ N. T. Wright

When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power see things happen of which they disapprove, they smash store windows, blow themselves up in crowded places, and fly planes into buildings. The fact that both methods have proved remarkably unsuccessful at changing things doesn't stop people from going on in the same way. ~ N. T. Wright

Cam scratched his nape. "You know what I don't get? How women can spend the majority of their lives in shopping malls but still say they have nothing to wear." Lydia snorted. "You know what I don't get? How men can spend the majority of their lives playing sports where they're being trampled on and listening to noisy mobs, yet they're put off by shopping, when it's no different." Both males tilted their heads, conceding that. ~ Suzanne Wright

You cant win if you don't play! Get in the game! ~ Keylend Wright

You need to make some friends. Whether you like company or not, it's important to have friends."
"Why would I want friends when I have you?"
"You don't have me."
"I will. Do you want to know what makes me so sure of that? Because no other situation is acceptable to me. ~ Suzanne Wright

In their groundbreaking book, Tribal Leadership, management consultants Dave Logan, John King, and Halee Fischer-Wright lay out the five stages of tribal development, which they formulated after conducting extensive research on small to midsize organizations. ~ Phil Jackson

[Referring to a glass of water:] I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody! ~ Steven Wright

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge. ~ N. T. Wright

Bob had been caught by the white death, the threat of which hung over every male black in the South. I had heard whispered tales of black boys having sex relations with white prostitutes in the hotels in town, but I had never paid any close attention to them; now those tales came home to me in the form of the death of a man I knew. I did not search for a job that day; I returned home ~ Richard Wright

I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles. ~ Steven Wright

There is no fate cut in stone that love cannot challenge and change. ~ Cassie Wright

Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears. ~ Steven Wright

His face was shockingly handsome,tan and smooth,except for the two healed scars near his right ear and mouth. ~ Laura Wright

I've never seen electricity, that's why I don't pay for it ~ Steven Wright

The dream they dream is beautiful. A dream as bold as your own, or bolder. You want to explore and colonize the universe; they wish to extend the lifespan of the universe beyond all boundaries, to remake its laws, and shape reality to banish entropy, decay, and death forever. I'd like to believe in that dream whether it's true or not. ~ John C. Wright

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

To me, the fun part of hitting is the thinking part. It's the game within the game. ~ David Wright

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even. ~ Mabel Osgood Wright

Well, that sucked. Clearly the fuck-up fairy had made an appearance. ~ Suzanne Wright

The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by. ~ N. T. Wright

I didn't understand what was supposed to happen from our swinging, but the need to make her happy bloomed in my chest. ~ Kenya Wright

I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for it. I don't feel that emotional. I'm at peace. ~ Lizz Wright

If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either. ~ Georg Henrik Von Wright

An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked as a thumbprint, and is a playwright's truest imprimatur. It is as innate as breathing, and can be as unique as any genetic code. By its very singular nature, it is seldom born in the act of collaboration. True authorial voice always pre-dates the first rehearsal of a text. And it is - and will always be - an author's most distinguishing and valuable feature. ~ David Wright

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed. ~ Bonnie Wright

For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end ... such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own. ~ C. Wright Mills

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them! ~ Orville Wright

If it is something that can be embarrassing or potentially lead to the loss
of employment, do not put it on the Internet - even if you think no one
who matters will see it. ~ Aliah D. Wright

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them. ~ Kirby Wright

Think of it: a writer actually possesses the power to alter his past, to change what was once experienced as defeat into victory and what was once experienced as speechless anguish into a stroke of great good fortune or even something approaching blessedness, depending upon what he does with that past, what he makes out of it. ~ Franz Wright

This
final and long
longed-for job:
to be unhappy
without doing
evil. ~ Franz Wright

You deserve better. But I'm going nowhere. I know that makes me selfish. I know another male shifter might have walked away. But I can't do that, Shay. I tried it once - it didn't work. Don't you get it yet? My life's worth shit without you in it. ~ Suzanne Wright

All forms of birth
physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional
bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life spirit birthing all, the seen and the unseen. ~ Amy Wright