C. S. Lewis Quotes
The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.C. S. Lewis
Quotes to Explore
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
V. S. Naipaul -
I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
Sam Smith -
I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
Sam Hunt -
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
Hanna Rosin -
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
Kate Forsyth
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
Kate Beckinsale -
There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
Halima Aden -
You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
Captain Beefheart -
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.
Zig Ziglar -
A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
Adam Braun
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For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
Salma Hayek -
I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
Carly Fiorina -
I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.
T-Pain -
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
Edith Sitwell -
I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
Vance Havner
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Quintus Ennius -
If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.
Barry Boehm -
He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Writing is a form of activism.
Angie Thomas -
The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.
C. S. Lewis