Quotes of: C-s-lewis Keyword

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

Cynthia Ozick

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

Cynthia Ozick

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

Cynthia Ozick

I didn't care for beat reporting, covering the same thing day after day - short attention span.

Charles Portis

The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals.

Charles Portis

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

Christopher Rice

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Carl Sagan

'What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal' was thrilling in its light, deceptive tone, its subtle but irresistible momentum.

Cathleen Schine

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

Curtis Sittenfeld

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

Curtis Sittenfeld

An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid.

Carl Sagan

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.

Carl Sagan

All her life, dreams had been her friends. Her dreams were unusually detailed, well-structured, colorful.

Carl Sagan

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

Carl Sagan

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.

Carl Sagan

How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.

Curtis Sittenfeld

His adolescents are displaced aristocrats who have lost their kingdom and wealth, which was childhood. [On J.D. Salinger]

Heather O'Neill

If a book isn’t at least somewhat polarizing, it didn’t say anything of value. [Blog entry - November 1, 2014]

Ilona Andrews

Kate's Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.

Ilona Andrews

Curran and I mixed about as well as glycerin and nitric acid: put us together, shake a bit, and hit the deck as we exploded.

Ilona Andrews

I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

Iain Banks