C. S. Lewis Quotes

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

C. S. Lewis

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• Girl
• Evil
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• After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'

  

  Taye Diggs
  • I Love
  • Watching
  • Choreographer

• I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Rights

• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • You
  • Media
  • Lazy

• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Heart
  • True
  • Father

• We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Will
  • Stand

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Work
  • Book
  • Together

• I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Like
  • Now
  • Legs

• The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Revolution

• When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Just

• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Right
  • Brands
  • Threatening

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Tennis

• There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Daily

• You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Hero

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the majority of my time. The answer to that question always needs to be 'with my family.'

  

  Elisabeth Hasselbeck
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I don't take for granted all the blessings that I have, and as soon as I heard about Computers for Youth, I really wanted to be involved. Anyone who knows me knows how much time I spend on computers. I'm a computer addict. Every young person deserves to have a computer in his or her home.

  

  Shad Gregory Moss
  • Time
  • Home

• Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Competition
  • Rules
  • Warfare

• I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.

  

  Bernard Arnault
  • Future

• That was our whole ambition was to become songwriters and get a publishing deal. So music has always been a part of my life.

  

  Pete Byrne
  • Life
  • Music
  • Ambition

• The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Music
  • Song
  • Girl