C. S. Lewis Quotes

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Love
  • Game
  • Lucky

• Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Live
  • Community
  • Communication

• My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Life
  • Child
  • Grandmother

• You can't just let nature run wild.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Nature
  • Run
  • WIld

• I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.

  

  Kate Adie
  • World
  • Women
  • Woman

• All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Emotional

• At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • School
  • Friends
  • Guy

• Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Dying
  • Circumstances

• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Life
  • Husband

• The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Alone
  • Media
  • Social Media

• I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Collage

• When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Time
  • God
  • Strong

• I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• The main reserve of the Haisla Nation hugs the northwest coast of British Columbia, about 500 miles north of Vancouver. The government docks sprawl on the south end of the reserve, nestled in a bay. As children, we swam at the docks and ran to the nearby point to pick blueberries and huckleberries when we were hungry so we wouldn't have to go home.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Children
  • Home
  • End

• When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.

  

  Jesse Kellerman
  • Time
  • Home

• The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

  

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