C. S. Lewis Quotes

'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Forget

• In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Nice
  • Play
  • Group

• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
  • Power
  • Society

• My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • City
  • Chicago

• All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Looking
  • Big
  • Market

• I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Years
  • Own
  • Boat

• I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

  

  Os Guinness
  • America
  • City
  • Christian

• I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mom
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beautiful
  • Waiting
  • Brave

• If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Challenges
  • Vine

• I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Diet
  • Automatically
  • Carbs

• In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Country
  • Politics

• I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Always
  • Wealthy
  • Did

• Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Moments

• We have a choice, every single day that we wake up, of what we can put into the world, and I ask you to please choose love every single day.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • Up
  • World
  • Single

• Devereux Forester's being ruined by his vanity is extremely good, but I wish you would not let him plunge into a 'vortex of dissipation.' I do not object to the thing, but I cannot bear the expression; it is such thorough novel slang, and so old that I daresay Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Good
  • Wish

• I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

  

  Don Mattingly
  • Time
  • Long
  • Moving

• Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Kids

• The novel's not organized like a screenplay. If you shot the novel, you'd have a twelve-hour movie.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Hours
  • Novel
  • Shots

• 'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)

  

  C. S. Lewis