C. S. Lewis Quotes

A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire." "With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep. "No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.

C. S. Lewis

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• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Government

• There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Human
  • I Can

• In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Perfect
  • Space
  • Modern

• I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Man

• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Future
  • Woman
  • Hell

• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Real
  • Power
  • Freedom

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Done
  • Job
  • Organization

• Having fans wherever I go gives me an energy, and it is the source of my power.

  

  Rain
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Fans

• I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Daughter
  • Editor

• Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Up
  • Freedom

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Thesis

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • World
  • Year
  • Grow

• As an actor, I have tried to do new things, and that's why I have done few films.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Done
  • Why

• I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

  

  Jean Giraudoux

• An ancient adage warns, 'Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.'

  

  Fred Brooks
  • Sea

• It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, in general, we expect too much of partners. We can't fulfil a person's every single need and, after ten years or so, many relationships wear out. If we were more philosophical about it, we wouldn't try to blame the other person or be bitter.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Single
  • Marriage
  • Failure

• I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Wind
  • Beach
  • Flag

• A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire." "With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep. "No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Single
  • Fire
  • King