Lewis Carroll Quotes

You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

Lewis Carroll

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• I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • World
  • Children
  • Lost

• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Government
  • Promise

• I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Information

• Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Artist
  • Weird

• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Record
  • Very
  • Catchy

• The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• Buildings are forms of performances.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
  • Buildings
  • Forms

• As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Question
  • Single
  • Achievement

• I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Want
  • Person
  • Alien

• I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A. I was afraid of having to start all over again, which happened. But we got lucky.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • She
  • City
  • Wife

• I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Book
  • Road
  • Beach

• I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I've done and cringe.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Work
  • Done
  • Character

• They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Real
  • Art
  • Gold

• Jesus loved me and I knew not why. And I loved Him because He quickened my spirit to heights beyond my stature, and to depths beyond my sounding. Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Why
  • May
  • Jesus

• This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

  

  Condoleezza Rice

• There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

  

  Cole Porter

• The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Moments
  • Confidence
  • Door

• And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, 'I have found it! Eureka!'

  

  Plutarch
  • Up
  • Water
  • King

• Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Food
  • Attention
  • Crying

• Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • May
  • Business
  • Small

• Proust is a huge author for me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Author
  • Huge

• You won't make yourself a bit realer by crying.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Crying
  • Realer