C. S. Lewis Quotes

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

C. S. Lewis

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• Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Memories
  • Show
  • Everyone

• Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Great
  • She
  • Kids

• I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.

  

  Pamela Dean
  • Think
  • Support
  • Examination

• I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Way
  • Find
  • Volume

• I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Air
  • Hot
  • Streets

• Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Always
  • Situation
  • Crisis

• When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Father
  • Thank God

• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Up
  • Like
  • Technique

• Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Respect
  • More
  • Give

• One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Paris
  • Guitar

• Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Work
  • Done
  • Interesting

• Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Speech

• It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Christian

• No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Time
  • Football
  • New

• Texas really is the greatest state in the greatest nation. Texans - and women all over the country - deserve leaders that care, that listen, and that work to protect their interests.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Country

• I can remember just learning to walk and trying to dance like Elvis and sing like Elvis, so I was very, very passionate about music at a very young age.

  

  Drake Bell
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Remember

• Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.

  

  Andrew Lawrence
  • Words

• I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

  

  Sara Paretsky
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Church

• If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • People
  • Book
  • History

• Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

  

  Fredrik Bajer
  • May
  • Value

• Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

  

  C. S. Lewis