C. S. Lewis Quotes

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

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• The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Vacation

• My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Inspired

• We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Information
  • Flow

• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Learning
  • Survive
  • Adult

• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Step
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime

• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Talking
  • Meet

• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Job
  • Career
  • Always

• It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Take

• My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Dad
  • College
  • Paid

• I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Democracy
  • Corporate
  • Boards

• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
  • saw
  • Six
  • Pilot

• Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Believe
  • Inside

• No hero is mortal till he dies.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hero
  • Dies
  • Till

• I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

  

  Zev Yaroslavsky
  • Disappointed
  • NFL
  • Disturbed

• Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Work
  • Men
  • Crazy

• I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Play
  • Games

• Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

  

  James Gandolfini
  • Character

• I spent the first 16 years of my life in Scotland. My whole family is there. It's in my blood and informs my sense of humour, my point of view, the people I choose to spend time with, everything.

  

  Gayle Rankin
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• With the wacky jokes that we do on 'Great News,' you do overall still want to be coming from a place of truth with your character because, otherwise, it's just off the walls.

  

  Briga Heelan
  • Great
  • Character
  • Truth

• I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavourable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways."

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Interesting

• But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Long
  • Fear