Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

A person can learn all manner of things, no matter where he finds himself, provided his spirit is determined.

The Briefcase

What are you supposed to do when something like that happens? Do you hold on or let go?

Breadcrumbs

She just eyed them coolly, as if they were nothing to her, as if their nothingness surprised and slightly repelled her.

Breadcrumbs

His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.

Breadcrumbs

Things fall apart. But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

The Book of Blood and Shadow

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

The Brutal Telling

They stared ahead. Silent. Morin had never realized murderers were caught in silence. But they were.

The Brutal Telling

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

Before I Wake

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.

The Cloud Atlas

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

Ashwin Sanghi

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones.

Robert T. Bakker

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams of American life were being ripped apart with riots and protests.

Sue Monk Kidd

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

Yayoi Kusama

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

Frances Mayes

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

Ayelet Waldman

Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

Barbara Goldsmith

I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.

Chang-Rae Lee

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

James Wolcott

Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view.

Simon Van Booy

Who we were shapes us into who we are, and who we are shapes us into who we’ll become.

100 Days in Deadland