Charles Lamb Quotes

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

Charles Lamb

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• Our family is very tight. Just like any family, we have our ups and downs, but the love is always going to be there. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Family
  • Love
  • House

• I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Painting

• In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Me
  • Never

• Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Like
  • Anger

• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Culture
  • You
  • Order

• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Ambition
  • Avarice

• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Together
  • House
  • Lost

• The Pyramids are perfect, but you can't put the Pyramids in the middle of Manhattan. In the desert, the combination of light and form makes it perfect.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Light
  • Perfect
  • Desert

• It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I've done a lot of other shows in the U.S. that have been great, but I knew that 'Roadies' was something special. I feel very, very fortunate.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Great
  • Done
  • Special

• Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Information

• The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Time
  • Marriage
  • Period

• I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Live
  • Year

• In general, I don't like L.A. all that much, but it has wonderful parts.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Like
  • Wonderful
  • General

• I don't support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • War
  • Support

• The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• It is forbidden to dwell in the vicinity of any of those with an evil tongue, and all the more to sit with them and listen to their words.

  

  Maimonides
  • Words
  • Evil

• Each finding like a friendSomething to blame, and something to commend.

  

  Alexander Pope

• It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Children

• To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely.

  

  Willard Gaylin
  • Men
  • Behavior
  • Term

• When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box.

  

  Max Walker
  • Night

• My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.

  

  Emma Rigby
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

  

  Charles Lamb