C. S. Lewis Quotes

The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• When I was drafted to Smackdown, I was like, 'Hell yes, I'm going to captain this ship.' Then I was like, 'Oh, wait, you're losing your best friend and travel partner and the person you enjoy having matches with the absolute most.' That's Charlotte. We travel together, and she is my best friend.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • She
  • Together
  • Friend

• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Dark

• I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Thought

• The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Music
  • Reality

• The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Job
  • Friend

• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • Look
  • Accomplishment

• Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Great
  • Around
  • Table

• Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Ideas
  • Feel
  • Weird

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Change
  • Party
  • Problem

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • She
  • True
  • Said

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Beach

• Well 'Monday Night Football,' I think the players kind of like it because they like the attention, and it's a lot of attention. But on the other hand, it's a disruption of the routine we used to have to play on Monday night. If you're a player, you sit around all day waiting for a game. It's different than when you play at noon.

  

  Bud Grant
  • Different
  • Game
  • Night

• In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Know
  • Moment

• The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Character
  • Lies

• In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Destiny

• I feel like my dream animal would be a mermaid that could fly and also live in the trees. She has a nest, almost like a bird. She feeds her babies like a bird, like, chews the food first and then feeds it to them through her mouth.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Food

• The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Attention
  • Perfect