Richard Wright Quotes

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

Richard Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 4, 1908 - November 28, 1960

Topics

DieSeeUpLikeBayBefore

Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.

Jerry Saltz

PaintingThinkPictureAbstractLow

When I grew up reading comics, the part in the Marvel universe that was so exciting was that you could have a battle going on in 'Iron Man' and then, suddenly, Thor would fly overhead, and you realized, 'Oh, it's all one place.'

Jeph Loeb

ManFlyReadingBattleUniverseYou

Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'

John Lithgow

LifeTimeThinkTopRealSee

People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.

Robert J. Waldinger

LiveHealthHappyPeopleBrainFind

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

Michael Caine

AmericanAwardHouseRulesPlaying

To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that.

Stanley Hauerwas

WorldStoryChristianYouBecome

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.

Stephane Hessel

GoodInterestCommonSlavesState

Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!

Rudolph A. Marcus

DecisionBelieveConsequencesExplore

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Mary Ellen Chase

LifeChildBooksSubstitute

Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.

Luis Palau

LifeChristianOptionEvangelism

My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage.

David Wenham

FatherMeAmbitionTheatreSunday

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

Aung San Suu Kyi

WantForeverBecause

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