C. S. Lewis Quotes

I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

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• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Business
  • Sweet

• Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Good
  • Book
  • Success

• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Money

• I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Between

• I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.

  

  Washed Out
  • Interesting
  • Child
  • Internet

• I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Weird
  • Strange
  • Really

• I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Me
  • Fashion
  • Travel

• It's a lot of wonderful things about the Bay area and Oakland that I absolutely love. I wouldn't change being from there by any stretch.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Change
  • Things
  • Wonderful

• You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Time
  • Education
  • Study

• Under the tropic is our language spoke,And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.

  

  Edmund Waller

• Before 1959, some Americans saw Cuba as something to exploit, ignored poverty, enabled corruption. And since 1959, we’ve been shadow-boxers in this battle of geopolitics and personalities. I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • Poverty
  • Shadow

• Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Hope

• As under cover of departing Day Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan away, Once more within the Potter's house alone I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • House
  • Alone

• I couldn’t possibly do a love story like Maine Pyar Kiya. I can perhaps do a more mature love story. Then again, we tried a love story with Silsila but it didn’t work. One thing is for sure, we can’t be doing what Salman is doing.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Work

• I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

  

  W. S. Gilbert

• The public...demands certainties...But there are no certainties.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Public
  • Demand
  • Certainties

• Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Films
  • Failures
  • Commercial

• You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Father

• I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else

  

  C. S. Lewis