CS Lewis Quotes
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
The longer-term the option, the sillier the results generated by the Black-Scholes option pricing model, and the greater the opportunity for people who didn't use it.
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.
To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.
You evidently do not suffer from "quotation-hunger" as I do! I get all the dictionaries of quotations I can meet with, as I always want to know where a quotation comes from.
A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.
I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality.
We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.
There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentle hand, Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined In Memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers Plucked in far-off land.
That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.
A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
I always thought, if I can affect one kid and help him or her fulfil their dreams, that would be kinda neat, so I want to ensure that I'm remembered in a good way.
I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
She's in that state of mind that she wants to deny SOMETHING only she doesn't know what to deny!
I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.
Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense.
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.
We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.
I learned that gratitude is the best feeling I would ever have, the ultimate joy of living.
How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?
Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs
Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.