Magician Nephew Quotes & Sayings

Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with. — Jenna Fischer

ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice. — Ambrose Bierce

Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury. — Euripides

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who. — Bruce McCulloch

Being an idealist is not being a simpleton; without idealists there would be no optimism and without optimism there would be no courage to achieve advances that so-called realists would have you believe could never come to fruition. — Alisa Steinberg

There are times when I am concerned about Toph's expression when I'm really singing, with vibrato and all, singing the guitar parts and everything - an expression that to the untrained eye might look like abject terror, or revulsion - but I know well enough that it is awe. — Dave Eggers

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered. — Neil Gaiman

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory. — Patricia Hampl

I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it. — Abraham Lincoln

this is a book about something — C.S. Lewis

Glory be!' said the Cabby. 'I'd ha' been a better man all my life if I'd known there were things like this. — C.S. Lewis

Laugh and fear not, creatures. Now that you are no longer dumb and witless, you need not always be grave. For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. — C.S. Lewis

Idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance. — Ellen Glasgow

Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?'
- The Magician's Nephew — C.S. Lewis

If I had ever been set down in any one place and told I was to play there, and nowhere else, for the rest of my life, I should have chosen the Old Course at St. Andrews. — Bobby Jones

All is well in all of creation. There is nothing that needs to be fixed, nothing that needs to be changed, nothing that went wrong. It has just been an experience. — Geoffrey Hoppe

~There are no recipes, only ingredients~ — Mireille Guiliano

You talk far too much ... Procure for me at once a chariot or a flying carpet or a well-trained dragon, or whatever is usual for royal and noble persons in your land. Then bring me to places where I can get clothes and jewels and slaves fit for my rank. Tomorrow I will begin my conquest of the world. — C.S. Lewis

I object to that remark very strongly!
- The Magician's Nephew — C.S. Lewis

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech.
- Aslan, The Magician's Nephew — C.S. Lewis

Introduction!" And yet when a novel goes back to print for a new hardcover edition, there ought to be something new in it to mark the occasion (something besides the minor changes as I fix the errors and internal contradictions and stylistic excesses that have bothered me ever since the novel first appeared). So be assured - the novel stands on its own, and if you skip this intro and go straight to the story, I not only won't stand in your way, I'll even agree with you! The novelet "Ender's Game — Orson Scott Card