Uncle Andrew Quotes

#1. Uncle Andrew, you see, was working with things he did not really understand; most magicians are.

C.S. Lewis

#2. I blew that clay pigeon to smithereens. I don't know why Mum got so upset. According to Uncle Andrew she's a crack shot herself. But she says I'm too young. What I'd like to know is how old does a person have to be before they get to do all the fun stuff?

R.L. LaFevers

#3. It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.

Elisabeth Elliot

#5. Algorithms are simplifications; they can't and don't take everything into account (like a billionaire uncle who has included the applicant in his will and likes to rock-climb without ropes).

Andrew McAfee

#6. I feel racing and suspension all at once.

Samantha Schutz

#7. No longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from.

Jewel

#8. Abby had a little experience with the rap genre already - she used to spit rhymes with this little blond neighbor kid when she would visit her aunt and uncle in Detroit. Marshall something. Great kid. A little tightly wound.

Andrew Shaffer

#9. The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#10. Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

Al Hirschfeld

#11. There are reports that leaders from ISIS and al-Qaida met at a farm house in Syria last week, and agreed to work together against their common enemies. That story again: Two radical terrorist groups managed to do what two American political parties cannot.

Jimmy Fallon

#12. Uncle Hoppy only laughed. "Just you wait," he said. "Before we get home we will meet the man who was supposed to be in that chair. And when we do, his heart will be prepared. Time and place are our own limitations, Andy; we mustn't impose them upon God." And

Brother Andrew

#13. There is no worse penalty for vice than the fact that it is dissatisfied with itself and all its fellows.

Seneca.

#14. I don't write books inadvertently.

A. N. Wilson

#15. He'd need the woman's help to set things right; he just didn't like having to wake the dead.

Joe DeRouen

#16. In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

C. V. Raman

#17. I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours.

Annie Fellows Johnston

#18. In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.

Andrew Lau

#19. My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#20. Anyone who believes we're living in a postfeminist age will learn that violence against females - from female infanticide and child marriage to honor killings and sex trafficking - has now produced a world with fewer females than males, a first in recorded history.

Gloria Steinem

#21. Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Saint Augustine