C. S. Lewis Quotes

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Single
  • Difficult
  • Stress

• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Social
  • Court
  • Supreme Court

• I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Book
  • Reading

• I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Different
  • Me

• The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Forest

• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Trying

• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Enemy
  • Need
  • Ask

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Job
  • Black
  • Know

• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Power
  • Inspiration
  • Beauty

• Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • Blood
  • Battle

• 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
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Years

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Reason
  • Enemy
  • Grandparents

• If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Age
  • Aging
  • Disability

• I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

  

  OMI
  • Looking
  • Looking Forward

• 'I’ll drive. You navigate.' He grinned. 'I judge people by how well they read maps.'

  

  Jane Yolen
  • People
  • Judge

• Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

  

  James A. Leach
  • Drawing

• If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on.

  

  Lela Rose
  • Good
  • Fun

• Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Hope
  • Soul

• Work's a way of life. It's the way you live; it's what you do, and it's how it is. It's not work. It's a lifestyle. It's life. It's what one does. You can't not work.

  

  Anouska Hempel
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Book