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Charles Lamb Quotes

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

Charles Lamb

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: english
Birth: February 10, 1775 - December 27, 1834

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Myself Men I Am Mediocrity Nothing

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

Andrew Gross

Family Truth Hero People You Belief

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

Mohsin Hamid

Experience I Am Write Much I Write

I'm not a nutcase. I know that.

Minnie Driver

Know

Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.

Mo Rocca

Work Hard Work Constitution Think

I have a weekly playlist on Spotify called Mixtape Mondays. So every Sunday night, I sit around listening to tunes to place. It's becoming my favorite part of the week.

Joshua Ostrander

Listening Night Week Sunday Place

I was working - just a regular working-class guy - but, at the same time, always aspired to do music.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

Music Time Same Always Guy Working

Our fathers were actually business partners in the same real-estate firm, and we got together and thought, How can we get a movie together and get distribution and create a new movie genre? We started by making satires of commercials.

David Zucker

Business Together Thought Create New

I was 38 years old when we started trying to have a baby. I thought it would be no problem, but the 3 years it took us was the most difficult period of my life.

Constance Marie

Life Baby Thought My Life Problem

I live on a train. I know - what a sad thing to admit. I am the New-Age Willy Loman. But there it is.

Christopher Buckley

Live Sad I Am Train Admit Know

My stories are often a little mysterious.

Chris Van Allsburg

Mysterious Little Stories Often

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

Anthony Holden

Change People Me Opinion Think

I started playing futsal in the favela because it was the closest pitch to where we lived. I think it was good for me, playing in a small space like that. You have to think and act quickly.

Philippe Coutinho

Good Space Me Small Think You