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

• 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

• 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

• Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Show
  • Got
  • Hide

• I want everyone to live to their full potential without having to fear someone will try to knock them down or discriminate against them.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Live
  • Fear
  • Potential

• I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Work
  • Long
  • Enjoy

• When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Up
  • Die

• I'm finally watching 'Mad Men.' As a child of the '60s, I can't believe how old everything looks! I am the age of baby Eugene.

  

  Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Age

• A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

  

  Trygve Lie
  • Neighbor
  • Throat
  • Diplomats

• 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