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Wally Lamb

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LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, t...
JACKIE EVANCHO A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New Y...
LANA DEL REY Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing we...
AARON SORKIN When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmon...
TRENT REZNOR While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excit...
HAKAN NESSER I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Soc...
AARON SORKIN There are certain things in 'Twilight'... As much as I'm proud of that movie and I do li...
KRISTEN STEWART I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.
LISARAYE MCCOY-MISICK It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ...
TANITH LEE I'm hesitant to make grand statements because I feel like that it's not exactly what I'm...
SPIKE JONZE I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I lik...
JOY FIELDING I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.
CECELIA AHERN The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone sayi...
BEN SCHOTT I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I ...
EVE BUNTING I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write becaus...
ORHAN PAMUK All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors...
RYAN GOSLING When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the sto...
KATHY REICHS I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
DANIEL WOODRELL The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b...
KELSEA BALLERINI I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before ...
A. S. BYATT It's really hard to write personal songs. I'm not good at writing ditties because as far as ...
EMILY ROBISON I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think ...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES I can't be bothered to learn Final Draft. I'm not a technical person. Like, when I sing, I j...
SIA I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But be...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
JIM HARRISON Also, I'd like to play an athlete again, while I'm still physically fit, or a musician, like...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film...
SAMANTHA MORTON I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm ...
EDMUND WHITE When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the p...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
KANYE WEST Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write i...
TAWNI O'DELL I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I ad...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier t...
ROXANE GAY The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I...
JACKIE EVANCHO I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scru...
ELIZA COUPE I always like to write where I'm at in real life into whatever I'm working on.
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You lea...
MICHAEL MORPURGO I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.
KATHY IRELAND I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. ...
NANCY PICKARD Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.
MARILYN MANSON I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
TATE DONOVAN I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel ...
TARAN KILLAM I love song writing, so I'm always happy to write for other musicians.
SEAN KINGSTON I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding o...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in ho...
MOBY Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in th...
ORHAN PAMUK When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book....
LINDA SUE PARK I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Go...
CAMREN BICONDOVA I'm a very sensitive person. I do like to be respected. I'm very loyal. I like it to be a tw...
JIM BROWN I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.
TIG NOTARO I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm com...
BARBARA BUSH I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you wr...
HENNING MANKELL Since I met Starsmith, my producer, I really feel like I'm making music because we write it toge...
ELLIE GOULDING I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not...
PAUL SIMON At this point, I have 10 pairs of cat earrings because fans bring them to me. The next song I write,...
MARY LAMBERT On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
FLUME I feel like every time I write a song, it feels like the first time I wrote a song. It's just as...
SHAWN MENDES I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get i...
IMELDA MAY I like to read books and be alone; I'm not social butterfly person. I'm sorry.
HOPE SOLO Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can...
E.L. DOCTOROW I don't go to any sexy places to eat where they give you half a lamb chop and one bean. I like g...
PATRICE O'NEAL I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free ...
LAUREN OLIVER I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.
LAURA WADE I'm excited and terrified to write something new. I won't be writing about suburbia.
MARC CHERRY I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm goin...
CHARLI XCX I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn&#...
DAVID BOWIE You can't say I look like this person or sound like this person exactly because I made it my own...
LIL UZI VERT I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeho...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I'm quite simple, really. I like to play and inhabit my character. I really like to inhabit the ...
MARK RYLANCE I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.
MANDY PATINKIN To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it.
DAVID GRANN The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why th...
ADELE I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I a...
CHELSEA CAIN I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.
HENRY PAULSON I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more d...
GAVIN ROSSDALE When I'm writing a pop song, I'll just write formulaically, strategically.
SIA I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing o...
MARGARET ATWOOD Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.
MIKE QUIGLEY I like being independent; I like doing things myself. I'm an instinctual person.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from...
WALLY LAMB The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
WALLY LAMB Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.
WALLY LAMB Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
WALLY LAMB I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
WALLY LAMB The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
WALLY LAMB I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The de...
WALLY LAMB If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
WALLY LAMB All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth...
WALLY LAMB Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.
WALLY LAMB Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were...
WALLY LAMB I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-ma...
WALLY LAMB I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
WALLY LAMB When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street....
WALLY LAMB It's the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins in...
WALLY LAMB All the time we were there, you could see that dead squirrel right out in plain sight. Whenever anyo...
WALLY LAMB I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the c...
WALLY LAMB Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
WALLY LAMB However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences-and I stray pretty far from m...
WALLY LAMB We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destruc...
WALLY LAMB The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
WALLY LAMB I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way ...
WALLY LAMB As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
WALLY LAMB But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
WALLY LAMB I remember the odd sensation of living in the middle of that experience and feeling, simultaneously,...
WALLY LAMB So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove t...
WALLY LAMB When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, a...
WALLY SCHIRRA We spent a lot of time in simulators. We were going to do it right.
WALLY SCHIRRA When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, exc...
WALLY SCHIRRA Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo d...
WALLY SCHIRRA I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not...
WALLY SCHIRRA I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to M...
WALLY SCHIRRA John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, tha...
WALLY SCHIRRA He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
WALLY SCHIRRA Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first air...
WALLY SCHIRRA At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.
WALLY SCHIRRA Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced a...
WALLY SCHIRRA Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head co...
WALLY SCHIRRA Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo ...
WALLY SCHIRRA I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many...
WALLY SCHIRRA I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there f...
WALLY SCHIRRA Each test pilot I know considers him, or herself, now that there are women, to be the very best. It&...
WALLY SCHIRRA NASA should start thinking about this planet.
WALLY SCHIRRA I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on...
WALLY SCHIRRA I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go f...
WALLY SCHIRRA I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
WALLY AMOS Email is the greatest thing.
WALLY AMOS Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.
WALLY AMOS I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
WALLY AMOS In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!
WALLY AMOS Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
WALLY AMOS It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's impor...
WALLY AMOS I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford th...
WALLY SCHIRRA When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous,...
WALLY SCHIRRA I know when Jamie McMurray puts his helmet on, he's going to drive as hard as he can whether he'll b...
WALLY DALLENBACH On first glance, one could argue that all three of these paintings are all alike. The palette is alm...
WALLY MASON You don't need to remind me.
WALLY BUONO [Along with a gallery of photos displayed throughout, the book comes with a DVD that has save-for-yo...
WALLY SCHIRRA When you look at why this team is 9-0, I don't think it's necessarily because the offense is that mu...
WALLY BUONO Harvey did a nice job of playing to our weakness. And we don't shoot well. We had some good looks, s...
WALLY KESLING Tyler Emmert is going to come in here and compete very well.
WALLY BUONO The impacts of this inflexible law have been real and devastating,
WALLY HERGER Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive thin...
WALLY AMOS In North Carolina the only burning that is allowed is vegetation that is growing on a lot where the ...
WALLY HOLLIS You're not going to whine after this ride like Lisa Marie Presley, are you?
WALLY DALLENBACH I think first it's a testament to how James has gotten better every year he's played. He continues t...
WALLY VICKERS Doing so this month in the context of the Council's ongoing process seems appropriate and reasonable...
WALLY WALKER I was disappointed to hear [the Kansas City deal] wasn't consummated, but it does show we do have a ...
WALLY BUONO After the Apollo 1 crew was lost, we said that we wore a black armband for a few weeks, and we wear ...
WALLY SCHIRRA I hope we can play better than that. Sometimes the score is distorted. We did what we had to do. We ...
WALLY BUONO We have been proud to call Seattle Center home court for four decades. Were the city to proceed with...
WALLY WALKER This morning I drove the back roads to our Mercury launch pad, Complex Fourteen. There was a plaque ...
WALLY SCHIRRA always that sibling rivalry.
WALLY SCHIRRA The Real Space Cowboys,
WALLY SCHIRRA John's going to get some unbelievable surprises, ... Some people get quite sick in space and it's qu...
WALLY SCHIRRA Over the past 11-plus seasons, the Sonics have the fifth-best winning record in the NBA including fo...
WALLY WALKER It's been great with Paul. I think I complement his game, because I don't dominate the ball that muc...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK The toughest thing is that, you know, we're a little bit lean on our marketing dollars, and we're pr...
WALLY SMITH He's like the Energizer Bunny, kind of like Steve Nash, ... kind of brought the glory back to that s...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK I meant no harm by the screen I set. I just tried to set a good, hard, legal screen and I think I di...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK I hate to keep harping on it, but we're young and we don't have the people to run in and out like we...
WALLY KESLING We gave up 111 points, that's not good. They knocked on our door the whole fourth quarter, but we fo...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK It doesn't matter who gets the shots in the fourth. Trenton was making plays. We were milking him. H...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK I just tried to show the team that I was healthy last year and I was capable of what I was capable o...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK We made wholesale changes. A whole new coaching staff. It's a fresh start for pretty much everyone. ...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK Criticism is going to come while you're injured, but you just have to work through it, stay mentally...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK I am not confident that we can get it done before tonight. We want to pay Bobby fairly and according...
WALLY BUONO My coaching was like it was from outer space. The girls said they felt like they were playing in mud...
WALLY SANCHEZ Our Northern California congressional district has been ground zero for many tragic events from an o...
WALLY HERGER Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
WALLY HERGER Each year, I have the honor of recommending young men and women for appointment to the U.S. military...
WALLY HERGER In 1938, Lloyd Anderson and some of his climbing buddies here in the Northwest were hard-pressed to ...
WALLY SMITH In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life a...
WALLY GOODWIN It was a really great time for her. She was single and dating and beautiful in New York in the '60s ...
WALLY AMOS I don't want to come across like this whole thing is a downer,
WALLY AMOS The harder they work, the more fortunate they become.
WALLY AMOS Life is neither good nor bad,
WALLY AMOS It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Becau...
WALLY AMOS I always wanted to have another cookie store, ... So 30 years later, we have another cookie store.
WALLY AMOS Faith and Timber Lake are always strong. Lemmon is new to the conference and is an unknown for us. W...
WALLY STEPHENS Nineteen distinguished years is all you could hope for from Nate as a player and a coach. He made a ...
WALLY WALKER We have to improve in all areas, we can't stay status quo,
WALLY BUONO We go to these 'Victory With Honor' clinics; our kids have to attend and Pine Hill kids have to atte...
WALLY SANCHEZ A very tricky situation. Some of the salaries are at the point of being out of whack, really out of ...
WALLY BUONO Cibola will still be good, because (coach Ray Rodriguez) does a good job, but when you don't have th...
WALLY SALATA We used up the amount of space and equipment we had there.
WALLY DONNELLY There's a long way to go, but the industry is responding, and it doesn't seem like there's any recog...
WALLY SNYDER [Still] Jolly Wally, ... delighted that John is going up, instead of me. He needs the flying time, I...
WALLY SCHIRRA We played hard, we played with intensity, we flew around. Were we as sharp mentally? No. Our guys we...
WALLY BUONO They had the momentum at that time. Was it a good call or a bad call? I'm not going to say it was a ...
WALLY BUONO We have to raise our level of intensity. I think they'll understand. We have to respond and rebound.
WALLY BUONO We'd like more production out of a lot of things, our running game is one of them, ... You have to b...
WALLY BUONO If you want to win, you make calls like that. If you worry about the consequences, you keep on losin...
WALLY BUONO Everything we do from this day forward is about doing better.
WALLY BUONO He's not a baby,
WALLY BUONO We played hard but we didn't play smart. Chances are running out on us and those guys better underst...
WALLY BUONO When we were 11-0 and came here some people thought I was sarcastic when I said I see no benefit in ...
WALLY BUONO A win for us [against Edmonton] solidifies what we have tried to accomplish for the last 10 months,
WALLY BUONO A lot of people tune in for the wrecks, no doubt about that.
WALLY DALLENBACH They even run a few training sessions each year.
WALLY DONNELLY He showed me some guts tonight. They kinda made us work for this win and my horse responded when I a...
WALLY HENNESSEY Our respect and affection for Nate will not waver, no matter how paradoxical that he is moving to ou...
WALLY WALKER I liked that the book brought von Braun to the surface. People didn't know much about him. He was a ...
WALLY SCHIRRA I think we completely lost our composure. We were up and it was like we were just trying to find a w...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK We're hoping before Feb. 16 comes we can wrap this up.
WALLY BUONO We recorded it at a place called Prairie Sun Studios, and it's an old chicken farm, so there were al...
WALLY INGRAM Faith has numbers and good athletes. Timber Lake and McIntosh will also put together good teams.
WALLY STEPHENS I was an All-Star in this league, and it seemed like some people forgot that, for whatever reason.
WALLY SZCZERBIAK [He] is one of those virtuoso guitar players. Sometimes I equate him to the flamenco Jimi Hendrix. Y...
WALLY INGRAM The teams that finished at the low end of the totem pole, they'll get the impact players. If you're ...
WALLY BUONO You can't put a value on the confidence (Miles) gives the (Tony) Tillers and (Ryan) Philips and Sam ...
WALLY BUONO Anne has demonstrated to our fans and to the whole WNBA that she is one of the top coaches in the hi...
WALLY WALKER We're looking to expand people's financial literacy. There's lots more people can do, if they only k...
WALLY DONNELLY These are guys who are difference-makers.
WALLY BUONO They never quit and we never quit, but the difference was they ran out of gas in the last four minut...
WALLY SANCHEZ What a great race that was. We were head and head coming down the stretch, and He Wants It All start...
WALLY HENNESSEY It's nice to get that first win. I thought our seniors Ross (11 points and six steals) and Johnson (...
WALLY KESLING There is one area where consumers can find big savings and that's on meals. Stores are popping up al...
WALLY KONRAD It was just back and forth game. It was a tough loss for us, and I thought they really got the benef...
WALLY SZCZERBIAK We're staying headquartered in Palm Beach County, but we're building the new facility to keep up wit...
WALLY SANGER You can't argue that [racing at Daytona] is a lot of fun to watch from a fan's perspective. It's clo...
WALLY DALLENBACH It goes from small to big and from the barnyard to the circus.
WALLY INGRAM The proposition we have lived by in this country is that you can give information as long as it's tr...
WALLY SNYDER She got the wind knocked out of her when she hit the court.
WALLY SANCHEZ It?s our highest finish ever. It was a pretty productive day.
WALLY CALDWELL He (You're Next) impresses me a little more every time I race him. And he has a lot more speed that ...
WALLY HENNESSEY My brother and I had a reputation for telling real bad jokes. We told the worst jokes in town. As a ...
WALLY HIRSTEIN We fouled the wrong guy.
WALLY SALATA They tried like hell to penetrate, time after time. So for us to hold them to 46 points, I think tha...
WALLY SANCHEZ I love working with the kids. I see kids every year and it is the same story. I ask myself what are ...
WALLY SCHNEIDER I had wanted them so much to be like the other kids. There was no reason for them not to have the ki...
WALLY SNYDER Bottom line in this league is you've got to make shots, especially in the fourth quarter,
WALLY SZCZERBIAK They hit some big shots and played the way they normally play. At times we were not as disruptive de...
WALLY VICKERS I could never hate anyone I knew.
CHARLES LAMB We're snowbirds. This is a lot better fair than we have back in Michigan.
ALAN LAMB He had played kayak polo once before and was interested in playing more. Six weeks later, we'd built...
ALAN LAMB It's a five-on-five, full contact game. There are two 10-minute halves. Each half starts after the b...
ALAN LAMB It's a five-on-five, full contact game, ... There are two 10-minute halves. Each half starts after t...
ALAN LAMB He had played kayak polo once before and was interested in playing more. Six weeks later, we'd built...
ALAN LAMB I was practicing my dry-land paddle skills in a basketball court near North Village one night and an...
ALAN LAMB Normally we stay about 10, 11 cents higher than most because we're full-service, ... I'm not guilty ...
ALAN LAMB I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o...
CHARLES LAMB She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
CHARLES LAMB Commemoration of Sundar Singh of India, Sadhu, Evangelist, Teacher, 1929 I am disposed to say gra...
CHARLES LAMB These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accide...
CHARLES LAMB We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat...
CHARLES LAMB I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th...
CHARLES LAMB The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth...
CHARLES LAMB Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my ...
CHARLES LAMB 'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'
CHARLES LAMB A year from now you may wish you had started today.
KAREN LAMB Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB Lawyers I suppose were children once.
CHARLES LAMB He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
CHARLES LAMB A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
CHARLES LAMB The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
CHARLES LAMB Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
CHARLES LAMB My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
CHARLES LAMB Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions fo...
CHARLES LAMB When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with...
CHARLES LAMB A child is fed with milk and praise.
MARY LAMB Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
CHARLES LAMB We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always...
CHARLES LAMB A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an od...
CHARLES LAMB A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feath...
CHARLES LAMB Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothi...
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by acciden...
CHARLES LAMB The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
CHARLES LAMB How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. S...
CHARLES LAMB For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hea...
CHARLES LAMB The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
CHARLES LAMB To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
CHARLES LAMB Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
CHARLES LAMB Presents, I often say, endear absents.
CHARLES LAMB