C. S. Lewis Quotes
In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.C. S. Lewis
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
Edmund Phelps -
I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
Lapo Elkann -
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
Hanya Yanagihara -
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Barbara Walters -
I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
Jackson Browne -
I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
Nadia Comaneci
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Aaron Sorkin -
I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
Eddie Campbell -
I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
Laura Lippman -
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
Randy Houser -
I definitely like wearing leotards.
Maddie Ziegler
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I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.
Q-Tip -
Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.
Tadashi Yanai -
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
H. Rap Brown -
Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.
Caitlyn Jenner -
My joints hurt. I'm slower. But I remember what it was like to run and play with the boys. I want to be one of the boys.
Ted Danson -
I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.
Patrick Chan
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Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.
Loretta Lynch -
We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.
Cheri Huber -
How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?
Catherynne M. Valente -
What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
Narada Michael Walden -
In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical.
C. S. Lewis