Charles Lamb Quotes

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.

Charles Lamb

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• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  

  Ed Markey
  • You
  • Car
  • Wait

• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Past
  • Curiosity

• Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Great
  • Action
  • Wonder

• I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • You
  • Know

• Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Time
  • Chocolate
  • Ice Cream

• You can either see yourself as a wave in the ocean or you can see yourself as the ocean.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Yourself
  • See
  • Ocean

• I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Earth

• I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Think
  • Past

• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Real
  • Done
  • Why

• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Know
  • Clothes
  • Throw

• I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Dark
  • Deep

• I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Think
  • Author
  • Coffee

• As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Friends
  • House
  • Liberty

• Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Good
  • Me

• We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Want
  • Words
  • Comfort

• There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Work
  • You
  • Kind

• So no, I don't think we've lost our edge at all.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Think
  • Lost
  • Edge

• General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains.

  

  George Meade
  • Mountains
  • Higher
  • Respects

• I always felt something different when I saw Gary Oldman on screen. It just felt like he knew how to reach a deeper level of himself, which is something I keep striving to reach.

  

  J. R. Ramirez
  • Different

• I believe in love, but I'm not sitting around waiting for it. I buy houses. I travel. I take jobs on mountaintops in Transylvania... I know that happiness comes in many ways and if you spend your life hoping to be found by or to find a significant other, you're going to miss out on all that stuff. And that's what makes you special and makes your life rich.

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Believe
  • Waiting
  • Jobs

• People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.

  

  James Garner
  • People
  • Nature

• We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize the tragic situations that we see all over the world, I think, without the U.N., people would suffer much more, and the situation would be much more terrible.

  

  Antonio Guterres
  • People
  • World
  • Suffering

• How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.

  

  Charles Lamb