Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?

Carl Sagan

taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

Carl Sagan

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

Calvin Trillin

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Calvin Trillin

Adolescents are still children in that they can't yet tell the difference between make believe and fiction.

Heather O'Neill

The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.

Iain Banks

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

Iain Banks

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

Iain Banks

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

Iain Banks

The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.

Iimani David

I think I'm always going to be a paranormal girl at heart. I'm always going to be intrigued by it.

Jennifer Armentrout

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

James Buchan

I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

Julie Burchill

I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped elegance hands down.

Julie Burchill

The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

Julie Burchill

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

Julie Burchill

Blakes Hotel in South Kensington was a particular favourite of mine during what I affectionately think of as my Restless Years.

Julie Burchill

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

Jack L. Chalker

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal?

Jessica Cutler

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

Jilly Cooper