Misattributed To C S Lewis Quotes & Sayings

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. — C.S. Lewis

I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it. — Brian Cox

But these vague whisperings may arise from Mr. Snagsby's being, in his way, rather a meditative and poetical man; loving to walk in Staple Inn in the summer time; and to observe how countrified the sparrows and the leaves are ... and to remark (if in good spirits) that there were old times once, and that you'd find a stone coffin or two, now, under that chapel, he'd be bound, if you was to dig for it. — Charles Dickens

You have to fall in love with the production, and then there's a certain mind-set that you develop where it does stay fresh in your mind. — Roy Conli

The problem in cinema is that you can never predict what will happen. — Denis Villeneuve

When you're on the road a lot, you're in perpetual search of a good night's sleep. — Artie Lange

Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema. — George Orwell

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours. — Lewis Carroll

We read to know we're not alone. — William Nicholson

But Lyric isn't sexy. She's fun, ridiculously happy, effortlessly beautiful, life-saving, and mind-blowing amazing. Sexy doesn't even begin to sum her up. — Jessica Sorensen

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse. — Amelia Barr

The commentaries on the Commedia also began stacking up at my bedside and on the bookshelf next to my chair in the den. There was Charles Williams's The Face of Beatrice, Harriet Rubin's Dante in Love, Yale scholar Giuseppe Mazzotta's Reading Dante, and later the galleys for English Dantist Prue Shaw's Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity. Most important of all, I began listening to the Great Courses audio lectures by Bill Cook and Ron Herzman, which made the poem come alive like nothing else. — Rod Dreher

You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

Adulthood is supposed to be about "a disciplining of a developmentally appropriate insanity". "Adolescents, and their parents who were once adolescents, are simply experiencing two kinds of helplessness. Helplessness born of experience and the helplessness born of lack of experience". — Phillips

I hope the next actress offered millions to play the 'fat girl for the day' stops to think about this before she signs the contract - even if just to ask, like any professional actress would in any other situation, 'Why does she weigh 350 pounds? And why me for the part?' If the director can't answer these questions, don't do the movie. — Allison Anders

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? Even with her altered complexion and face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulcher, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt, notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful. Upon this I pondered with undiminished perplexity ... — George MacDonald