Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be able to see it. Breathing, waking and sleeping: our lives are steamed and shaped into stories. Knowing that is what keeps me from going insane, and though I don't like to admit it, sometimes it's the only thing.

C. S. Lewis

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

C. S. Lewis

Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother—-Scrubb probably has!

C. S. Lewis

Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use.

C. S. Lewis

The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.

C. S. Lewis

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.

Andre Agassi

When you're young, you can sleep in till 12,

Agnes Repplier

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

Charlotte Bronte

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped --

John Fowles

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.

Lewis Carroll

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.

Lewis Carroll

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

Lewis Carroll

I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see.

Lewis Carroll

In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.

Lewis Carroll

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

Lewis Carroll

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Carroll

Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

Lewis Carroll

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

Brian Eno

Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future.

Cheryl Strayed

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

Brian Greene

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

Ben Okri

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

B. Carroll Reece

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

William Shakespeare

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Charlton Heston

The big studio era is from the coming of sound until 1950, until I came in I came in at a crux in film, which was the end of the studio era and the rise of filmmaking.

Bob Goin

One thing I will say is that Kenyon is never going to be able to erase the great memories I have of him and I'm sure that's true for our fans, ... He was a model for future players. I have great respect for what he accomplished here.

Kelvin Garnett

I felt for these kids after that football game. Hopefully we can erase some of disappointment in basketball.