C. S. Lewis Quotes
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.C. S. Lewis
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova -
You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
Fran Tarkenton -
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant -
People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
Patricia Ireland
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
Walter Isaacson -
The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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 -
I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
Barry Hannah -
Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
Hans Vestberg -
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
Malcolm Boyd -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang
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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 -
When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.
Madhur Mittal -
We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
Abraham Robinson -
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga -
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
Harold Prince
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It's really hard to not get put in a box when you're acting and get typecast.
Andrew-Lee Potts -
If you talk to anybody, among the first things you'll hear is, 'Steve Carell is the nicest guy in the world.' And he is. 'Steve Carell is the greatest guy to work with.' And he is. But all of that belies other aspects that are as true with him.
Bennett Miller -
As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name.
Connie Chung -
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.
James Gleick -
'Home And Away' was my first big break. I was already a fan of the show, so to suddenly be on it was really good.
Christopher Egan -
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C. S. Lewis