Famous Quotes & Sayings

Renee Olstead

When I was young, I was teased mercilessly by my classmates for being a redhead. I wasn't particularly well coordinated either, which made me a bit of a liability in P.E.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Richie Benaud

Writing is difficult all the time; the thing is to learn something every day.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Nas

You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

Gore Vidal

I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.

C. S. Lewis

Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also.

C. S. Lewis

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

C. S. Lewis

A myth is a lie that conveys a truth.

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

C. S. Lewis

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

C. S. Lewis

Man must endure his going hence.

C. S. Lewis

Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

C. S. Lewis

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

C. S. Lewis

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

C. S. Lewis

In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.

C. S. Lewis

I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.

C. S. Lewis

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

C. S. Lewis

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

C. S. Lewis

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

C. S. Lewis

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

C. S. Lewis

You have gone into the Temple...and found Him, as always, there.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

C. S. Lewis

It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth.

C. S. Lewis

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

Cecil Taylor

To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

Cathy Moriarty

The way I grew up, when you're married, you have to stay married together.

Catullus

Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.

Cecil Beaton

I want to make photographs of very elegant women taking the lipstick off their teeth.