Derrick Lewis Quotes

Here's why I think there's something a little odd with George Bush. Because a lot of the times when he speaks, his words don't match his face. Something is askew. You can't talk about the war with a smile on your face. He does it constantly. If you're the President, you should go We're going to talk about the war, I must have a frowny face. The only time you can smile when you're talking about the war in Iraq is when you go, Well, two Iraqis walk into a bar, hahaha. ~ Lewis Black

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all. ~ C.S. Lewis

Life is a sports make it count. ~ Derrick Adkins

When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this? ~ C.S. Lewis

Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski ... he gave you six major pointers whereby you became that character and tried to fool your mind psychologically. That's it in a nutshell. Daniel Day Lewis is an example of somebody like that who stays in character between takes. ~ David Wenham

I get road rage. I can't drive because I cuss people out. ~ Leona Lewis

The reason I like socialism is that it's kind of enforced Christianity. It's basically very Christian, in the sense of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." These people have nothing, so you have to share. ~ Lewis Black

I knew that I'd lived in New York too long when, a few years ago, I was on a subway going downtown, and it stopped at 14th Street. At the station, the doors opened, and the conductor announced that there was a bomb on board and we should evacuate immediately. Nobody moved. We just looked at each other, 'Do you see a bomb?' 'I don't see a bomb.' 'There's no bomb.' 'I've only got two stops - let's go for it. ~ Lewis Black

who can describe beauty? The reader may smile at this as the far-off echo of a precocious calf love, but he will be wrong. There are beauties so unambiguous that they need no lens of that kind to reveal them; they are visible even to the careless and objective eyes of a child. ~ C.S. Lewis

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved. ~ C.S. Lewis

The great thing about this project," said Tim, "is that it's software that talks to physical things rather than software that just talks to other software. You can see the effect of what you are doing. ~ Michael Lewis

Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side. ~ Emmanuel Lewis

She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets. ~ Sinclair Lewis

I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend. ~ Lewis Hamilton

The person of the therapist is the converting catalyst, not his order or credo, not his spatial location in the room, not his exquisitely chosen words or denominational silences. So long as the rules of a therapeutic system do not hinder limbic transmission - a critical caveat - they remain inconsequential, neocortical distractions. The dispensable trappings of dogma may determine what a therapist thinks he is doing, what he talks about when he talks about therapy, but the agent of change is who he is. (187) ~ Thomas Lewis

In avoiding any situations reminiscent of the past trauma, or any initiative that might involve future planning and risk, traumatized people deprive themselves of those new opportunities for successful coping that might mitigate the effect of the traumatic experience. Thus, constrictive symptoms, though they may represent an attempt to defend against overwhelming emotional states, exact a high price for whatever protection they afford. They narrow and deplete the quality of life and ultimately perpetuate the effects of the traumatic event. ~ Judith Lewis Herman

The last guest lecturer to honor the students with her presence had been Isabelle Lightwood. And the 'lecture' had consisted of a stern and humiliating warning that every female in a ten-mile radius should keep her grubby littler hands off Simon's hot bod.
Fortunately, the tall, dark-haired man who strode to the front of the classroom looked unlikely to have any interest in Simon or his bod. ~ Cassandra Clare

the American essayist Lewis Thomas on the semicolon: The semicolon tells you that there is still some question about the preceding full sentence; something needs to be added [ . . .] The period [or full stop] tells you that that is that; if you didn't get all the meaning you wanted or expected, anyway you got all the writer intended to parcel out and now you have to move along. But with the semicolon there you get a pleasant feeling of expectancy; there is more to come; read on; it will get clearer. The Medusa and the Snail, 1979 ~ Lynne Truss

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms. ~ C.S. Lewis

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars. ~ Lewis Black

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives. ~ Lewis B. Smedes

Grief makes you feel alone, but you're not. I know you don't believe in-in religion-the same way I do, but you can believe you're surrounded by people who love you, can't you? ~ Cassandra Clare

That's all right," says Billy. "We're blending what we see but we aren't allowing ourselves to be victimized by what we see. ~ Michael Lewis

If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves. ~ C.S. Lewis

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's we do not accept them easily enough. ~ C.S. Lewis

Joy is the serious business of heaven. ~ C.S. Lewis

As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know he's going to be around the ball all the time. ~ Jamal Lewis

God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created. ~ C.S. Lewis

For the mention of Aslan gave him a mysterious and horrible feeling just as it gave the others a mysterious and lovely feeling. Just ~ C.S. Lewis

The trouble with many relationships is that people jump into them without first learning to love themselves in completion. ~ Karlicia Lewis

Comedy is a man in trouble. And without it, there's no humor. ~ Jerry Lewis

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis) ~ John Piper

My parents were my worst audience. ~ Richard Lewis

Don't grieve. Don't grieve. I shall be there/Look for my footprint on the air. ~ Naomi Lewis

God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. ~ C.S. Lewis