Charles Lamb Quotes

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

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• Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Space
  • Ideas
  • Own

• I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • Wonder
  • Talent

• I just want to do my job.

  

  Ma Long
  • Job
  • Want
  • Just

• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
  • Personal

• I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Work
  • Money
  • Looking

• If I don't create, I don't exist.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Create
  • Exist

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Real
  • War

• Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Way
  • Basketball

• I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Never
  • Popular

• When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Women
  • Love
  • Strong

• You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • Live
  • Today
  • Feelings

• Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Name
  • Down
  • Cotton

• If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Worry
  • Big

• You are only as good as the people you dress.

  

  Halston
  • People
  • Good
  • Dress

• My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Vice
  • Involvement
  • Began

• I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • History
  • Career

• TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Different
  • Want
  • Look

• I'm a hopeless fu**ing romantic. That's a part of me that a lot of people don't know about. They know everything there is to know about another part of me, but not a thing about my heart.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • My Heart
  • Hopeless
  • Part Of Me

• Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is a conversion to humanity — a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life.

  

  Carter Heyward
  • Life
  • World
  • Family

• I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times in a way that's completely consistent with the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Life
  • Trying