C. S. Lewis Quotes

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

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• I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Knows
  • Sister

• I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Kid

• I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Time
  • Women
  • Love

• For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Light
  • Color
  • Animals

• In America, Miramax are using a 'New York Times' review that said 'Trainspotting' makes 'Kids' look like a 1960s episode of 'Sesame Street.'

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kids
  • America
  • Look

• I dreamed big. So it's so great to be living my own dream. I'm working in an industry that I want to work in, and I'm doing something that I love every day. So I feel really lucky to have had so many opportunities.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Work
  • Great
  • Love

• My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Important
  • History
  • Justice

• We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • World
  • Power
  • History

• I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn't resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr's book 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.' After I read that book, I didn't touch a fag again.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I learned have, not to despise, What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Small
  • Eyes

• You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Free

• For a heart without love is a song with no words And a tune to which no one is listening So your heart must give love and you'll find that You shine like rain on the leaves you'll be glistening.

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Words

• Huir el rostro al claro desengaño,beber veneno por licor süave,olvidar el provecho, amar el daño;creer que un cielo en un infierno cabe,dar la vida y el alma a un desengaño;esto es amor. Quien lo probó lo sabe.

  

  Lope de Vega

• Who hath not proved how feebly words essayTo fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sightFaints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart, confessThe might, the majesty of loveliness?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Words

• ’Twas on a sunny summer dayI trod a mighty city’s street,And when I started on my wayMy heart was full of fancies sweet;But soon, as nothing could be seen,But countenances sharp and keen,Nought heard or seen around but toldOf something bought or something sold,And none that seemed to think or careThat any save himself was there.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Heart
  • City
  • Sweet

• I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

  

  Aesop
  • Cold
  • Blow

• A man's house is his castle - et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.

  

  Edward Coke
  • House

• Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Wife
  • Hockey

• I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • She
  • Study

• Modern cars I don't like so much.

  

  Amber Heard

• In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

  

  Frederick Banting

• All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

  

  C. S. Lewis