C. S. Lewis Quotes
To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.C. S. Lewis
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
Wale -
I was unbelievably lucky.
Wendy Hiller -
I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
Nathan Bedford Forrest -
You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
Gary David Goldberg -
Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
Zack Snyder
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
Vera Farmiga -
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
Kate Adie -
My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
Dan Gable -
Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.
Wendy Kopp -
Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
Zac Efron -
Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
Paris Hilton
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
Dan Fogler -
I am a self-critical perfectionist.
Victoria Pendleton -
I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
Laura Linney -
Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
Zooey Deschanel -
I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
Zoe Sugg -
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler
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Judaism and Christianity in themselves are distinctly separate entities, to be sure; but when considering their influence on Western thought, we must bear in mind that Christianity alone, or almost alone, transmitted the Jewish share, simply by what it contained of it in its own, original constitution.
Hans Jonas -
The chap that endures hard knocks like a man enjoys a soft time later on.
Plautus -
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.
W. H. Auden -
It art can only succeed through the cooperating imagination and intelligence of its consumers, who fill out, for themselves, the artist's world and make it round, and whose own special genius partly determine the ultimate glory of it.
William H. Gass -
Neo-soul caught my attention more than any other sub-genre. I was really attracted by that sound. It made me do what I do musically: trying to find the same type of vibes, those nostalgic vibes.
Kaytranada -
To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.
C. S. Lewis