English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

C. S. Lewis Quotes

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

C. S. Lewis

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Tennessee Williams quote: "Everybody is nothing until you love them."
Everybody is nothing until you love them. Tennessee Williams
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase. Erma Bombeck
Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said. Mike Gordon
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. Suzanne Fields
A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual mastery of self, talent, and money. Gold created the get-rich-quick mentality that has been with us ever since, most recently during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. Pete Hamill
Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. Virginia Graham
Abe: Wise hermit cast adrift on asteroid for thousands of years; has developed odd code languages for everyday actions; lonely but not bitter; his heart is cryogenically frozen, and he must search the universe pursuing the Thawer. Doug Coupland
Marcus Aurelius quote: "Receive without conceit, release without struggle."
Receive without conceit, release without struggle. Marcus Aurelius
Carrie Fisher quote: "Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is..."
Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me. Carrie Fisher
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man. James Thurber
Jon Lovitz quote: "The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying..."
The problem with the economy isn't that people aren't paying their fair share of taxes. Jon Lovitz
I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger. Toni Morrison
Roger Daltrey quote: "My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do..."
My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention. Roger Daltrey
John Wooden quote: "Remember, results aren't the criteria for success? it's the..."
Remember, results aren't the criteria for success? it's the effort made for achievement that is most important. John Wooden
Charles Buxton quote: "Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to..."
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. Charles Buxton