Charles Lamb Quotes

A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

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• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  

  Sally Ride
  • You
  • Space
  • First

• These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Old
  • Trees

• Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Speed
  • Quantity

• Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Creativity
  • Creation
  • Meaningful

• We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Information
  • Farmers
  • Were

• I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • Dream
  • Action

• It's called the Samsung Chromebook Plus, and it runs on an ARM processor, the same type of processor that powers the vast majority of smartphones and tablets. It was designed in close cooperation with Google.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Same
  • Cooperation
  • Google

• I think, 'Scott Pilgrim,' it was something where the general audience didn't necessarily understand straight away what it was.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Understand
  • Away

• I love the concept of community energy.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Energy
  • Community
  • Concept

• When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Decision
  • Wonder

• At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Will
  • Point
  • Arm

• To me it's all about textures, and that's the side of music that I'm finding really exciting. I feel like it's one of the only parts of music that mankind hasn't fully discovered yet.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Me
  • Finding

• My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Why is partying and having a good time bad?

  

  Tara Reid
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Believe
  • Tell

• And as long as your cats is loyal to what y'all are standing for, and they know how to play the game, it should be no way you can lose. It's about compromising; it's about respecting one another's position, and about going with your heart as far as what you believe in.

  

  Raekwon
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Heart

• As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?'

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Why
  • Me
  • Question

• I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Tree

• I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.

  

  Anita Roddick
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Community

• The feminine values are the fountain of bliss. Know the masculine, Keep to the feminine.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Values
  • Feminine
  • Masculine

• She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Mother
  • Kind
  • Daughter

• The common wisdom is that only about 1 percent of a novelist's research ends up in his or her book. In my experience, it's even less - closer to a tenth of a percent.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Book

• It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of contending elements of vice and virtue, and ever mainly influenced by the predominant principle of self-interest. It may, indeed, be confidently asserted, that there never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.

  

  Alexander Fraser Tytler
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Democracy

• A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

  

  Charles Lamb