Lady Caroline Lamb Quotes

a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.

Lady Caroline Lamb

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• I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Growing
  • First

• America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Me
  • Ladies
  • Gentlemen

• Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • History
  • Tradition
  • Congress

• You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Go
  • Ride

• You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Important
  • Comedy
  • Best

• I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • History
  • Being
  • Extent

• I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Week
  • My Own
  • Bullets

• If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Families

• You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • American
  • Dream

• Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parents

• No, I'll stay Ice-T. This is what got me here, I'm always going to stay true to that. If it weren't for hip-hop I wouldn't be doing all these other things.

  

  Ice T
  • True
  • Me
  • Doing

• I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Perfect
  • Plant
  • Eating

• I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Up
  • Moving

• I like to relax and get my mind off of business for a few hours.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Relax

• If the crew is hit by the situation that we're trying to portray, I think we get a real and a stronger moment with the camerawork and the actors.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Think

• I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Life
  • Different
  • Writing

• What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Done
  • Creativity

• Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

  

  Martha Beck
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Work
  • Together
  • Hope

• You can't look good everytime, even if you try to no matter what.

  

  Nonito Donaire
  • Matter
  • Look
  • Every Time

• a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.

  

  Lady Caroline Lamb