Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis quote: "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You, too? I thought I was ...
CLIVE STAPLES (JACK) LEWIS

But we are gratified that the Supreme Court has acknowledged and clarified the distinct but separate...
JACK LEWIS

They took six pints of blood, and he may only have had 12, depending on his size.
JACK LEWIS

Destroying this file would not only make crime-solving in Pennsylvania more difficult, but would als...
JACK LEWIS

We provide the coverage to the best of our ability. But if a municipality can afford to support poli...
JACK LEWIS

It's just like anything -- they want to remember their childhood.
JACK LEWIS

If someone is making money on the pool, then it's illegal. It technically might be a violation, but ...
JACK LEWIS

We have some concerns about the use of the vehicles as this legislation is written. We will be talki...
JACK LEWIS

It allows them on the road. But it restricts the usage of their vehicle and they do have to blow int...
JACK LEWIS

The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million pe...
VINCE STAPLES

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, t...
VINCE STAPLES

Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do...
VINCE STAPLES

Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
VINCE STAPLES

I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people becau...
VINCE STAPLES

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel...
VINCE STAPLES

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
VINCE STAPLES

Care and pity are two different things.
VINCE STAPLES

I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.
VINCE STAPLES

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in the...
VINCE STAPLES

What's important to me is people just being people.
VINCE STAPLES

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
VINCE STAPLES

Some people make their best music when life is horrible.
VINCE STAPLES

The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wr...
VINCE STAPLES

My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had t...
VINCE STAPLES

You're either ghetto or you're not.
VINCE STAPLES

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
VINCE STAPLES

Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.
VINCE STAPLES

It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have ...
MAVIS STAPLES

My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're i...
MAVIS STAPLES

The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich.
VINCE STAPLES

We've had a great change. Dr King saw to that. I was so grateful to see the 'colored only...
MAVIS STAPLES

I got it, looked at it and put in my file.
MONTEL STAPLES

Canceled checks will be to future historians and cultural anthropologists what the Dead Sea Scrolls ...
BRENT STAPLES

I would classify [a common thread] as confidence. You can see that J.J. is confident that he's going...
CURTIS STAPLES

I've always said, like the old saying goes, records are meant to be broken. J.J. has been a hard wor...
CURTIS STAPLES

I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick...
MAVIS STAPLES

He's like a shutdown corner. We put him on the other team's best player, leave them alone and totall...
MONTEL STAPLES

To have 36 points against one of the best front courts in the area and one of the best players in th...
MONTEL STAPLES

The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see...
MAVIS STAPLES

I was fed up with this crap. I know that everybody that's here just wants something normal.
HANK STAPLES

J.J. plays with that edge. When you see J.J. on the court, you can see it in his eyes. It's the eyes...
CURTIS STAPLES

I enjoyed reading the book. I think the story line is interesting and holds your attention. For us t...
DEREK STAPLES

I hope to work with [J.R.] this summer to take his game to the next level. I want him to be more agg...
CURTIS STAPLES

I'm very critical of J.R., but with a lot of constructive criticism.
CURTIS STAPLES

It was one of those things where you had this kid that could really shoot, and all the other kids we...
CURTIS STAPLES

I'd be real happy if the police arrested me. It'd be the best publicity I could get.
HANK STAPLES

Some girls have different strategies. They might not start out as fast. I know the other girls are t...
HALEY STAPLES

I didn't know what to expect, and it's been fun so far. I try to think of ways to make myself go fas...
HALEY STAPLES

I tell myself I'm almost done. As painful as it might be, keep going. All the others are back there,...
HALEY STAPLES

I don't believe everyone can live up to being No. 1. It's tough. You're supposed to be the best team...
MONTEL STAPLES

There are stages we all go through when dealing with character deaths. Grief. Anger. Denial. Laughte...
JACK LEWIS BAILLOT

I don't think they did their arithmetic correctly. I think they needed an accountant to go over the ...
MARY STAPLES WEBBER

Jewelery isn't really my thing, but I've always got my eye on people's watches.
CLIVE OWEN

The story of Rod Stewart, the story of Carlos Santana is so inspiring to young musicians because it ...
CLIVE DAVIS

The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. It's a status that does exist.
CLIVE DAVIS

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Citi...
CLIVE THOMPSON

Santa Cruz is blessed not only with natural wonders, but also with gifted souls who can fashion natu...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.
CLIVE BARKER

Tel Aviv is buzzing with so much life, you could bottle it and sell it as honey, and even Jerusalem ...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.
CLIVE SINCLAIR

The stock market is like a small row boat on a rough sea, bouncing around as it drifts, whereas the ...
CLIVE GRANGER

In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, w...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.
CLIVE BARKER

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...
CLIVE BARKER

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us ...
CLIVE BARKER

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every mom...
CLIVE BARKER

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!
CLIVE BARKER

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach him...
CLIVE JAMES

As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
CLIVE JAMES

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movi...
CLIVE JAMES

It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
ROBERT CLIVE

My God, Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!
ROBERT CLIVE

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's danci...
CLIVE BARNES

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
CLIVE JAMES

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and enti...
CLIVE BARNES

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.
CLIVE BARKER

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords ...
CLIVE DAVIS

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses i...
CLIVE BARKER

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - wh...
CLIVE THOMPSON

I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.
CLIVE OWEN

Schoolchildren and older people like the idea of planting trees. For children, it's interesting ...
CLIVE ANDERSON

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
CLIVE JAMES

The adage that you're either gay or straight or you're lying, well, that's not true. Bis...
CLIVE DAVIS

In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last woun...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

The idea of the split personality is as old as Genesis. For a start, Eve was manufactured from Adam&...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
CLIVE JAMES

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
CLIVE JAMES

I swear, the bigger the bully, the smaller the dick.
CLIVE BARKER

Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with p...
CLIVE BARKER

Every year in late June, Custer's Last Stand is reenacted on the high plains of Montana. When Cu...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes ...
CLIVE ANDERSON

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...
CLIVE BARKER

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the f...
CLIVE BARKER

I'm sort of one of those weird actors who whenever I do a play, I think, 'Oh, we should film...
CLIVE OWEN

Many years ago, when I lived in the mini-Siberia they call East Anglia, I was awakened in the early ...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

We live in the Age of the Next New Thing; we're assaulted day and night by tastemakers telling u...
CLIVE BARKER

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it'...
CLIVE BARKER

I think anybody who bets on horses and says they win is probably a liar.
CLIVE OWEN

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.
CLIVE OWEN

Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.
CLIVE OWEN

Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to by...
CLIVE BARKER

My own zigzag path through life led me back to Santa Cruz in the early Eighties, and I have revisite...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his ...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absol...
CLIVE BARKER

In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which ...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bi...
CLIVE OWEN

I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat,...
CLIVE BARKER

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hop...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the...
CLIVE BARKER

There was supposedly no point showing 'Nightbreed' to critics because the people who see the...
CLIVE BARKER

Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowfl...
CLIVE BARKER

I do not mean for one second to suggest that 'White Doves at Morning' was written with a mov...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
CLIVE JAMES

Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and enti...
CLIVE BARNES

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!.
CLIVE BARKER

The Labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the libera...
CLIVE ANDERSON

While Elvis was a country boy who sang 'black' . . . Chuck Berry provided the mirror image where cou...
CLIVE ANDERSON

I'm not bald... I'm just taller than my hair
CLIVE ANDERSON

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to ...
CLIVE ANDERSON

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, buil...
CLIVE BARKER

I like snappy dialogue and short descriptions and lots of action.
CLIVE CUSSLER

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
CLIVE JAMES

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved...
CLIVE BARKER

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
CLIVE JAMES

Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.
CLIVE JAMES

The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become wit...
CLIVE THOMPSON

It's always the thrill of the unknown. Everybody dives in the Grand Cayman or Bermuda. I don't dive ...
CLIVE CUSSLER

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
CLIVE BELL

If we're brutally honest, this is the game we look forward to most, ... a little more spice followin...
CLIVE WOODWARD

Stop worrying / nobody gets out of this world alive.
CLIVE JAMES

This work shows that stem cells can be used as drug delivery vehicles in the brain.
CLIVE SVENDSEN

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
CLIVE JAMES

I say 'spectacle' rather than 'story' because in the end, it isn't the intricaci...
CLIVE BARKER

Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

In the cold light of day we need to see how we played technically and tactically, this is going to b...
CLIVE WOODWARD

Rod gets more and more comfortable in the genre with each album, and that's why he won his Grammy fo...
CLIVE DAVIS

Most digital divide projects have had a philanthropic impetus, but HP has said that if this thing is...
CLIVE SMITH

I only heard last night that it (a citing) might happen and it was confirmed this morning,
CLIVE WOODWARD

I saw the same tapes that the citing commission would have seen and to me there was plenty of eviden...
CLIVE WOODWARD

There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that'...
CLIVE OWEN

Research gathered over recent years has highlighted the countless benefits to people, wildlife and t...
CLIVE ANDERSON

Retail investors can currently gain access to products with hedge-fund investment characteristics th...
CLIVE BRIAULT

My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.
CLIVE CUSSLER

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and...
CLIVE THOMPSON

A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahe...
CLIVE GRANGER

Forecasts vary in horizon, from a few seconds up to a few days in financial markets, compared to fro...
CLIVE GRANGER

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of l...
CLIVE GRANGER

Whale was gay, I'm gay; Whale was English, I'm English. Whale made some horror movies, and I've made...
CLIVE BARKER

For me really good acting is about subtext.
CLIVE OWEN

Martin and I spoke earlier this month about his decision. I made it clear during the Rugby World Cup...
CLIVE WOODWARD

My grandfather was a ship's cook, and he came back from the Far East very often with strange lit...
CLIVE BARKER

I wanted to fold into the 'Hellraiser' narrative something about the guy - the Frenchman Lem...
CLIVE BARKER

Everyone in Tel Aviv knows Yosl Bergner. In 2006, the mayor made him a Freeman of the City. Now he c...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when ...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

It benefits from its nine-person cast, superb from top to bottom, and, let's face it, expectations s...
CLIVE BARNES

I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to ge...
CLIVE BARKER

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and...
CLIVE BARKER

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
CLIVE BARKER

"Gather experience. . . Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and ce...
CLIVE BARKER

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
CLIVE BARKER

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other ...
CLIVE BARKER

[Before all that, however, Barker was the founder of and a director with a small theater troupe in L...
CLIVE BARKER

I do love these events. It is a chance to interact in a direct and personal way. So when I do agree ...
CLIVE BARKER

The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and to the tales that preceded that; tho...
CLIVE BARKER

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the...
CLIVE BARKER

On the crassest level, the lady gets into the box, the lady is sawn in half, the lady is in two piec...
CLIVE BARKER

But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for exam...
CLIVE BARKER

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when thing...
CLIVE BARKER

[As for Clive Barker -- he spent virtually all day with his fans. First at an autograph session that...
CLIVE BARKER

I've never felt so good in my life,
CLIVE BARKER

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutel...
CLIVE BARKER

Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's o...
CLIVE BARKER

A meeting was held to discuss some Zimbabwe Cricket ideas for making progress on negotiations. But t...
CLIVE FIELD

There is an idea, broadly held on Wall Street, that names with X's are more memorable and tend to ca...
CLIVE CHAJET

I feel blessed that I found not just a profession, but a 24/7 way of life that I purely love. That c...
CLIVE DAVIS

A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single author...
CLIVE THOMPSON

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.
CLIVE OWEN

I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'
CLIVE OWEN

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and...
CLIVE BELL

For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas ...
CLIVE BELL

Comfort came in with the middle classes.
CLIVE BELL

Perhaps the House had heard Harvey wishing for a full moon, because when he and Wendell traipsed ups...
CLIVE BARKER

However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the...
CLIVE BARKER

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is lik...
CLIVE BELL

Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far l...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that ...
CLIVE OWEN

One of the major successes of the tournament so far has been the refereeing, because I can't recall ...
CLIVE WOODWARD

I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

My years with Aretha Franklin have been very special, as were the years making records with Dionne W...
CLIVE DAVIS

This accomplishment, which is hard to attain in the airline industry, is one we have now achieved ov...
CLIVE BEDDOE

Once you lose six or seven players, it impinges on your bench. That is not to be disrespectful to th...
CLIVE GRIFFITHS

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every momen...
CLIVE BARKER

Memory, prophecy, and fantasy—
The past, the future, and
The dreaming moment between—<...
CLIVE BARKER

Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.
CLIVE BARKER

Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification,...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

I have been very disappointed in the behavior of both teams during this series and I would urge the ...
CLIVE LLOYD

We take our normal precautions which are professional and thorough,
CLIVE WOODWARD

It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark ...
CLIVE DAVIS

A lot of this game is about the attitude shown by players, and the attitude this week has been immen...
CLIVE WOODWARD

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

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