Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Charles Dudley Warner

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Charles Dudley Warner

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

Mary Higgins Clark

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

Erin Morgenstern

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

Erin Morgenstern

Writing in a near frenzy is wonderful and freeing, but for me, it did not result in a nice, shiny novel. Instead, what I have is a mess.

Erin Morgenstern

Writing in a near-frenzy is wonderful and freeing but, for me, it does not result in a nice shiny novel. Instead what I have is a mess.

Erin Morgenstern

But wasn't there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn't seem fair.

Out of the Easy

If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.

Oceans of Fire

...but you have to know when you close those doors, you don't leave anything for the other person.

Oceans of Fire

You know that old saying. Once you go dead, no one's better in bed.

One Foot in the Grave

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

The Onion Girl

Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything

Olive Kitteridge

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

Water for Elephants

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.

The Witches of Eileanan

You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

Water for Elephants

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:

Water for Elephants

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Water for Elephants

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.

Marcel Proust

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Julie Burchill

You know, when George Bush talks about freedom not being America's gift to world but God's gift to all humankind, it smells like market testing to me.

Joe Klein