C. S. Lewis Quotes

'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

C. S. Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963

Topics

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It's important to show solidarity for a child, no matter what. It's important for a child to be raised in a situation where she sees love, solidarity, commitment and honor.

Joe Nichols

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I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

Jerry Hall

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The big thing in favor of doing an editorial on the front page is that it would be a powerful signal of how concerned we are about guns.

Andrew Rosenthal

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If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.

Melvin Van Peebles

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Andre Gide

PeopleSome PeopleAlwaysNextAway

My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.

Meshell Ndegeocello

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'Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).

John Singer Sargent

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I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' - now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

Steven Moffat

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God made me an Indian.

Sitting Bull

GodMeMadeIndian

I consider myself very much a team player.

Sigourney Weaver

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In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone?

Mary Harris Jones

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I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to one side in conflict with itself.

Christopher McQuarrie

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