A.A. Lewis Quotes

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

Poetry is frosted fire.

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.

I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one

I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session.

This is unparalyzed in the state's history.

And now, will y'all stand and be recognized.

These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky!

The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.

We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes.

It's a large as life and twice as natural

If it had grown up, it would have made a dreadfully ugly child; but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.

Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

You would have to be half-mad to dream me up.

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

One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

Abstract qualities begin With capitals alway: The True, the Good, the Beautiful- Those are the things that pay!

This was charming, no doubt; but they shortly found out That the Captain they trusted so well Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, And that was to tingle his bell.

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth.

You couldn't have it if you DID want it.

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

I once delivered a simple ball, which I was told, had it gone far enough, would have been considered a wide

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.

"In my youth," said his father, "I look to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life."

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

We haven't any and you're too young.