Charles Lamb Quotes

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

Charles Lamb

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• Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Look

• Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Audience
  • United States

• I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • American
  • Care

• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Government
  • Turn

• My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Time
  • Live
  • Man

• We have but one flag, one country; let us stand together. We may differ in color, but not in sentiment. Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which white and black persons here, who stood by me through the war, can contradict.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Country
  • May
  • War

• Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Change
  • Something
  • Expected

• We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Character
  • Communication

• For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• It's hard to have a boom-bap hip hop record that goes No. 1 in the country.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Country
  • Hard
  • Record

• By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Beginning
  • Picture
  • End

• A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Small
  • Grow
  • Manufacturing

• I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Play
  • Myself
  • Baseball

• A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Important
  • Long

• People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Want
  • Doing

• Yet people who benefit from all this now viciously defy Westminster, purporting to act as though they were an elected government; people who spend their lives sponging on Westminster and British democracy and then systematically assault democratic methods. Who do these people think they are?

  

  Harold Wilson
  • People
  • Democracy

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Training

• My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.

  

  Alan Furst
  • True

• Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Money
  • Fame

• You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Time
  • Done
  • Book

• The Flying Scotsman was the first train, ever, to do 100 MPH. 147 tons doing the ton.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Flying

• My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

  

  Charles Lamb