D.A. Carson Quotes
It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.
Boxers are hot, and by boxers I mean guys who box, not the underwear. So get rid of 'em!
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.
A man walks into a hospital feeling unwell and the doctor says: "Sorry, you've only got three minutes to live." The man said: "Can you do something for me?" "Yes," he said. "I'll boil you an egg."
My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.
I was in a panto last year, Aladdin and The Wonderful Lamp. I played the wick. I got the sack because I was too well-oiled every night.
People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar. The barman looks at them and says: "Is this some kind of a joke?"
I was going up to the bathroom and a woman asked me: "Have you a good memory for faces?" I asked why and she said: "Because there isn't a mirror up there."
Oak, granite, Lilies by the road, Remember me? I remember you. Clouds brushing Clover hills, Remember me? Sister, child, Grown tall, Remember me? I remember you.
As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.
They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them.
As long as I don't commit any crimes, you have no right to judge me except by my performance as a professional. On that level, you're welcome to think whatever you want about me.
When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
I came to realize that if people could make me angry they could could control me. Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
Step follows step, Hope follows Courage, Set your face towards danger, Set your heart on victory.
If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.
That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.
Would you favor me with a dance?" Over all the others I was his choice! I curtsied, and he took my hand. Our hands knew each other. Char looked at me, startled. "Have we met before, Lady?
To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.
When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.
I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?