Wyndham Lewis Quotes

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

Wyndham Lewis

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• Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Everything
  • I Can
  • Audition

• I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Survival

• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Efficient
  • Perfectly
  • Runner

• No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Place
  • Economy
  • Changes

• Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Free
  • You
  • Retirement

• I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Love
  • Really
  • Forests

• Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Think
  • Education
  • Serious

• I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Book
  • Couple
  • Big

• During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Career
  • Succeeded

• Recent economic data shows that our economy is robust, growing and headed in the right direction. The numbers don't lie. Americans are currently enjoying falling gas prices, low unemployment, increased job creation, and a stock market that has reached an all-time high.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Job
  • High

• In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Value

• The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Life
  • You
  • Capable

• Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe

• Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters or Stratford as one of the places. Shakespeare is in one sense present at every moment in every play.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Hope
  • Reading

• She forced me to become avant-garde and take my clothes off, when all I wanted was to be Tom Jones.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • She

• After three years down here, I've not learned too much. But one thing I do know is that our bellies aren't big enough for revenge. It turns sour and eats you up. We'll get out, but we'll get out for the sun, the moon, and mothers, not for small-souled enemies, though we'll deal with them when we get there.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Small

• The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have all this debt. The reason we have to raise the debt ceiling is because we can't pay our bills and we have to borrow money because we don't have any money to pay our bills.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • America
  • Reason
  • President

• There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

  

  Bruce Lee

• Though we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species, there is little evidence as to how it has come about, and no clear proof that the process is continuing in any considerable degree at the present time.

  

  William Bateson
  • Evolution
  • Proof
  • Continuing

• A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

  

  Wyndham Lewis
  • Reason
  • Intelligent
  • Revenge