C. S. Lewis Quotes

I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

C. S. Lewis

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• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Amazing

• I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Character
  • Better

• I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Art
  • Crazy
  • Doors

• If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.

  

  Watt Key
  • Faith
  • Voice
  • Fool

• We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Freedom
  • Nothing
  • Expression

• The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

  

  Harold E. Hughes
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Body

• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Always
  • Afraid
  • Exceptions

• 'Trolls' was a blank slate - there was no world, no mythology. We talked a lot about the Grinch and we liked how they showed his heart growing, but how do you show a photographable device like that for the Bergens? We ended up using color for a lot of that: desaturating and then pulling the saturation up.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Up
  • World
  • Heart

• No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Rest
  • Opinion
  • Policy

• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Start
  • Difficulty
  • Ordeal

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Death
  • Lies

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Sense
  • Word
  • Century

• Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Light
  • Practice
  • Inner Beauty

• I love Michelle Williams. I think she's extraordinary. I was such a fan of 'Blue Valentine,' and I heard stories about how Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams worked on that. They lived together for a period of time as rehearsal. From nine in the morning to five at night, living in a space together. The work is really awe-inspiring.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Work
  • Think

• of a character in 'The Man Who Gave Up Smoking' who is suffering from a hangover ... the noise of the cat stamping about in the passage outside caused him exquisite discomfort.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Character
  • Suffering

• It's hard sometimes to capture magic when it comes to live records.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Live
  • Magic

• Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

  

  Epicurus
  • Age
  • Soul
  • Health

• I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Black
  • Reading
  • Deep