Quotes About Lewis

there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as the one she

Say, can thy noble spirit stoop To join the gormandising troop Who find a solace in a soup?

people who say "Mason jar" instead of "fruit jar" probably are a little snooty and sleep in pajamas.

As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

life-giving generosity was another depth in Lewis's nature that was part of his greatness

Like Johnson, Lewis was more impressive in his conversation than in his poetry, and more impressive in his prose - particularly in his learned prose - than in his conversation.

Lewis had a] determined impersonality towards all except his very close friends.

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.

I had been an abject fan of Martin and Lewis when I was a kid. I just thought they were terribly funny. None of their movies captured the kind of chemistry they really had.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.

Janeane Garofalo ended up, in a sense, being pushed by the media into becoming a pundit.

In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength.

The Right to an Answer is a further anatomy of the Britain Burgess personally found waiting for him on his return from the East.

But among the great road trips of American history--from Lewis and Clark to Alexis de Tocqueville to Jack Kerouac-- it hardly rates a mention.

I owed Lewis one thing, at least. Once you had suffered the experience of presenting a case at one of his Monday morning conferences, no other public appearance, whether on radio, TV or the lecture platform, could hold any terrors for you.

I kind of look up to Lewis, not as a hero, but as a very good driver who is very fast. Everyone has to admire his pace, especially in qualifying. He is a driver I support, in terms of him being British, and I want him to win, but he isn't an idol to me.

Hey, you can't play football forever unless you're Brett Favre or Ray Lewis.

To the connoisseur of scenes, nothing is more enjoyable than a thorough, melodramatic, egoistic humility.

And though he had almost flunked in Greek, his thesis on 'Sixteen Ways of Paying a Church Debt' had won the ten-dollar prize in Practical Theology.

Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.

cigar, and walked up and down before the house, a portly

his writings to elicit a sense of realism while inspiring a call for social change.

Harry Sinclair Lewis was born on February 7, 1885 in Minnesota.