Top 100 Lewis Quotes
#1. I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.
Carl Lewis
#2. As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.
Philip Zaleski
#3. Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.
Studs Terkel
#4. You would have to be half mad to dream me up." -Lewis Carroll
E.K. Blair
#5. This just ain't my day, is it?' They came to the statue of a naked woman and Lewis slapped her on the buttocks. 'You wouldn't turn me down, would you, princess?' he said.
Charlie Higson
#6. Some people argue we should solve all the problems on Earth before going off the planet, but that's like telling Lewis and Clark to stay put until the rest of the East was settled. No way.
Vint Cerf
#7. 'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.
Stanley Hauerwas
#8. Our daughter's name Arwynn comes from Arwen in 'Lord of the Rings' because my wife and I met for the first time in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford where J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis used to go to read out their stories to one another.
Adrian McKinty
#9. Man, to Lewis, is an immortal subject; pains are his moral remedies, salutary disciplines, willing sacrifices, playing their part in a drama of interchange between God and him.
Jocelyn Gibb
#10. I've always been a huge fan of apologetics. C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors.
Shane Harper
#11. The secret of a happy life, Lewis, is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.
Colin Dexter
#12. Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is.
Shannon Sharpe
#13. A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.
John McCain
#14. Keep going, no matter what."
--Reginald F. Lewis: Lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, Chairman, CEO ---
Reginald F. Lewis
#15. After the Cardinals traded their No. 6 pick, I didn't know where I was going, ... The first thing I thought about was me and Ray Lewis doing that commercial, and how he made me do his laundry. And now it's actually going to be a reality.
Terrell Suggs
#16. You start reading C.S. Lewis, then you're reading G.K. Chesterton, then you're a Catholic.
Ross Douthat
#17. Author C. S. Lewis wrote a beautiful and accurate definition of humility: "Humility is not thinking less of yourself ... it is thinking of yourself less." "It is about feeling safe so you can focus on other people. It is not about being in fear and seeing yourself as worthless!
Kimberly Giles
#18. Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.
Edward Kennedy
#19. Lewis: "You looked beautiful tonight. In fact, you get more beautiful every time I see you."
Nicky: "I, but I was just wearing-"
Lewis: "Say thanks."
Nicky: "Okay, thanks, and you looked... muddy.
Lily Harlem
#20. The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
Tanith Lee
#22. Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.
Thomas Harris
#23. I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!
Aubrey Plaza
#24. If I had the gift of Jerry Seinfeld, of Bill Cosby, of Lewis Black, these instinctively brilliant comic minds, then you go that route! But you gotta know your limitations. I'm more of an actor, more of a process guy. I did Tom Snyder, just as Danny Aykroyd did on 'SNL.' I did it in the club.
Joe Piscopo
#25. For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read - and how he wants to write.
Joe Fassler
#26. Lewis: "Oh, no."
Kaitlyn: "Lewis?"
Lewis: "Hi, Kaitlyn. Hi. Rob."
Rob: "G'way, Lewis. I'm sleeping."
Kaitlyn: "Hi. Anna."
Anna: "Hi, Kait."
Lewis: "Hi, Anna."
Gabriel: "And good night, John-Boy! Shut the hell up, all of you!
L.J.Smith
#27. John Maxwell...Izzy Lewis revised:
"The single GREATEST difference between GROWING PEOPLE and those that DON'T GROW is THE BELIEF that they CAN LEARN, GROW, AND CHANGE.
Izzy Lewis
#28. To say the truth,' replied Miss Crawford, 'I am something like the famous Doge at the court of Lewis XIV.; and may declare that I see no wonder in this shrubbery equal to seeing myself in it
Jane Austen
#29. Older folks usually wear their own masks when they deal with children, but Lewis opened up and let go. He accepted who he was and what the world around him was like, and decided he would only see the good in all the mess.
Cameron Jace
#30. In the truest sense, Christian pilgrims have the best of both worlds. We have joy whenever this world reminds us of the next, and we take solace whenever it does not. C. S. Lewis
Randy Alcorn
#31. I don't suppose there'll be a tree left standing, for ever so far around, by the time we're finished.' Tweedledum to tweedledee [They are fighting over a rattle]. Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 156
Lewis Carroll
#32. I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.
Lauren Bacall
#33. Roderick Lewis had a professional career, but he molested young girls. Zy
Nika Michelle
#34. John Lewis Gaddis had come to visit shortly before the election and over lunch said something that resonated with me. "Never forget how really dependent the world is on America. And they know it.
Condoleezza Rice
#35. Never hit a target you don't need to hit. Ever. One murder gets the police interested, two gets them excited.
(The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter)
Malcom Mackay
#36. Lewis encourages his cancer-stricken and temporarily depressed wife that uncertainty rather than hopelessness is our cross.
C.S. Lewis
#37. Emmanuel Lewis was amazing to work with. I'll love that guy to the end of time.
Corin Nemec
#38. There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar to Wyndham Lewis than to the Renaissance. It's not about flow and the presence of humanism and all those things.
John Currin
#39. My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
Ed Bradley
#40. There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.
Dean Koontz
#41. President Bush has delivered a new resolution to the U.N. saying that Saddam has failed to cooperate with U.N. resolutions, freeing us to get our war on. Don't mess with us France, or we'll send Jerry Lewis to Iraq as a human shield.
Craig Kilborn
#42. Miraculous things are often little more than natural things sped up. - C.S. Lewis
Luke Holzmann
#43. Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'
James Wolcott
#44. As C. S. Lewis points out, the journey to hell is a process, which can begin with something as apparently innocuous as a grumbling mood.
Timothy Keller
#46. You got the list?" Lewis asked.
"What the hell is the deal with the temperature?"
"Razel is not allowed to sweat," Maximo answered. "If she does,
fanatics will appear from nowhere like mischievous sprites and bottle
each drop and then sell it on eBay for millions.
Elizabeth Morgan
#47. Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.
Atul Gawande
#48. Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention.
Carsten Jensen
#49. I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
Alan Lightman
#50. I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.
Corin Nemec
#51. Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what you're the fastest.
Chris Rock
#52. And Lewis felt excitement, and gratification. Somebody - some
Colin Dexter
#53. You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and Clark and put them up there, but Everest is still in charge; it can still kick butt.
Jon Krakauer
#54. If you go to Jesus to get a new personality, Lewis says, you still haven't really gone to Jesus. Your real self will not come out as long as you are looking for it; it will only emerge when you're looking for Him.
Timothy J. Keller
#55. Mouse sandwiches and open graves?" Meredith arched an elegant eyebrow. "I think you're getting Stephen King mixed up with Lewis Carroll.
L.J.Smith
#56. Another superb movie about a mature marriage grounded in a fundamental lack of communication is Dodsworth, based on the Sinclair Lewis novel.
Jeanine Basinger
#57. One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.
Stephen Rodrick
#58. I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.
Tim Burton
#59. It's not what I thought it would be, but it's alright, too. -- High King Peter in Prince Caspian, written by C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
#60. C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate order in life, which others perceive as chaos.
Frederick Lenz
#61. Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles
N.D. Wilson
#62. The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis
Philip Zaleski
#63. If you look at the people who make up the Bravo landscape from Jeff Lewis to Rachel Zoe and Padma Lakshmi and Tabatha Coffey and the 'Millionaire Matchmaker,' these are very strong personalities that people love to watch and that you ... don't see anywhere else.
Andy Cohen
#64. You want to leave with me, Samantha Lewis. Take me to your home, now," he says, still staring into my eyes, and I feel as though I zoned out for a second, but then I realize what he said, and burst out laughing. "Are
R.K. Close
#65. We are not necessarily doubting," said C. S. Lewis, "that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." He
Jan Karon
#66. As the American historian John Lewis Gaddis put it, it is like looking in a rearview mirror: if you only look back, you will land in the ditch, but it helps to know where you have come from and who else is on the road.
Margaret MacMillan
#67. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
-C.S. Lewis
Jodi Woody
#68. [Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.
Jarvis Cocker
#69. We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis
Philip Zaleski
#70. I guess Lewis couldn't compete with God, although they are both big on nonsense.
Cameron Jace
#71. In a brilliant lecture written in 1944, C. S. Lewis described the fatal British obsession with the 'inner ring', the belief that somewhere, just beyond reach, is an exclusive group holding real power and influence, which a certain sort of Englishman constantly aspires to find and join.
Ben Macintyre
#72. My first name was inspired by the character of Aslan, the lion in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.
Aselin Debison
#73. There was a time, not so long ago, when Simon Lewis had been convinced that all gym teachers were actually demons escaped from some hell dimension, nourishing themselves on the agonies of uncoordinated youth.
Little did he know he'd been almost right.
Cassandra Clare
#74. No true love is possible, Lewis demonstrates, until we abandon our claims, our rights, our grievances. Until then we will be trapped in the obscurity of our heart's mixed motives, our will to possess, to control, to be our own gods.
Michael D. O'Brien
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Cassandra Clare
#76. People are still crying out for Lennox Lewis. They still want to see Lennox Lewis. That motivated me. I am still young. I have a couple fights left in me.
Lennox Lewis
#77. Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. - C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY
Sheila Walsh
#78. Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.
Alister E. McGrath
#79. I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
Robin Trower
#80. I have always loved fantasy; I think probably stepping through the wardrobe with Lucy in C.S. Lewis's 'Narnia Chronicles' was my first exposure when I was really little.
Jacqueline Carey
#81. The rumors about me being with Jamal Lewis, Adam Carolla and Tiki Barber are absolutely false. I've never even met Adam or Tiki Barber in person'we did phone interviews. What happens is that a lot of high-profile men saw topless photos of me.
Kola Boof
#82. Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.
Utah Phillips
#83. Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.
James Sallis
#84. Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.
Neil Strauss
#85. C. S. Lewis once wrote that man has two clues to the meaning of the universe. One is the knowledge of a law that he did not make but is obligated to keep; the other is the knowledge that he does not and cannot keep it.
J. Budziszewski
#86. That day, so many wept. Young and old, friends and strangers, black and white, men and women wept. The angels wept. Jesus wept. Coach Gabe Lewis, though, with his eyes on the lilies, shed not a single tear.
Nathan Barber
#87. At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.
Joseph Bruchac
#88. I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.
Steve Martin
#89. Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.
Huey Lewis
#90. The paradox of this arrangement was not lost on Lewis Mumford, who described suburbia as "a collective effort to live a private life." In many ways, this goes to the heart of the matter, for it is a project based on self-contradiction - the tragedy of American domestic
Morris Berman
#91. I like the Stooges. You know what movie I saw that I sort of discovered late was Jerry Lewis in 'The Nutty Professor'. I really liked that.
Mike Judge
#92. Yes, I am aware that I am the gayer version of Jeff Lewis.
Daniel Tosh
#93. I really love the Olympics: Daley Thompson's back-flip, Derek Redmond's father helping him finish the 400m after his hamstring snapped at the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Carl Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sir Steve Redgrave - childhood memories are flooded with these moments and idols.
Giles Duley
#94. I've got a new life now, a new future, there's a lot more to Lennox Lewis than just being a boxer.
Lennox Lewis
#95. Apart from being Jennifer Lewis. The name pulls people in.
Jenifer Lewis
#96. Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.
Jim Diamond
#97. At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis.
Michael Strahan
#98. Christianity brings to fulfilment and completion imperfect and partial insights about reality, scattered abroad in human culture. Tolkien gave Lewis a lens, a way of seeing things, which
Alister E. McGrath
#99. Why demand ye of me where the land of Oomaldee lies? Did they do the same of C.S. Lewis and his Narnia?
L.R.W. Lee
#100. When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.
Elton John
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