C. S. Lewis Quotes

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

Quotes to Explore
-
I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
-
Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
-
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
-
The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
-
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
-
I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
-
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
-
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
-
With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
-
I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
-
I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
-
I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
-
I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
-
As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
-
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
-
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
-
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
-
I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
-
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
-
Chris Rock is a good friend of mine, and he is hysterical.
-
But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.
-
Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
-
I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
-
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.