C. S. Lewis Quotes

I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

C. S. Lewis

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Mom

• One must act in painting as in life, directly.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Act

• A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Man
  • Tired
  • Retired

• My wife attends a Presbyterian church.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Wife
  • Church
  • Presbyterian

• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Truth
  • Said
  • Will

• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Job
  • Never
  • Finish

• The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Time
  • Party
  • Single

• The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • May
  • Strong
  • Energy

• I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Important
  • Technology
  • Practice

• The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Game
  • Opportunity

• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
  • War
  • Beauty
  • Optimism

• Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Hard

• Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Grief

• Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Girl
  • Confidence

• We are not the slaves of laziness, we are the slaves of WiFi.

  

  Choi Jun-hong B.A.P
  • Slaves
  • Laziness
  • WiFi

• Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that I have found remarkable in the stratigraphical record.

  

  D. V. Ager
  • Science
  • Easy
  • Records

• Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

  

  Erwin Chargaff
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Forces

• Reverse-engineer Hollywood is how I think of it. All the social-media stars are going in the back door, and everyone's trying to get in the front - there's a line outside. And then everyone's trying to sneak around back, but then there's security, you know? That's an analogy, I guess.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Trying
  • Door

• I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Science
  • Path
  • Lies