Charlotte Lamb quote: "War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided."

You are as ordinary as spring,' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down ...
CHARLOTTE LAMB

Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that...
CHARLOTTE LAMB

A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can expla...
CHARLOTTE LAMB

I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men...
CHARLOTTE LAMB

I think love is always going to be the most important subject for women.
CHARLOTTE LAMB

If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to tal...
CHARLOTTE LAMB

I think printed fiction is what women read.
CHARLOTTE LAMB

Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are domin...
CHARLOTTE LAMB

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

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
CHARLES LAMB

In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.
CHARLES LAMB

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
CHARLES LAMB

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to ...
CHARLES LAMB

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races:...
CHARLES LAMB

We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquire...
CHARLES LAMB

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he i...
CHARLES LAMB

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find ou...
CHARLES LAMB

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from...
WALLY LAMB

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gr...
CHARLES LAMB

It is good to love the unknown.
CHARLES LAMB

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
CHARLES LAMB

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
CHARLES LAMB

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topogra...
CHARLES LAMB

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
CHARLES LAMB

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
CHARLES LAMB

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
CHARLES LAMB

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superf...
CHARLES LAMB

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it.
CHARLES LAMB

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
CHARLES LAMB

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
CHARLES LAMB

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
CHARLES LAMB

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All...
CHARLES LAMB

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
CHARLES LAMB

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
WALLY LAMB

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
CHARLES LAMB

I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained...
CHARLES LAMB

If this job has any pressures I haven't found them yet,
AMANDA LAMB

We do find lots of surprises when we go back,
AMANDA LAMB

I think I was getting too old for them, ... The new girl is 21 so, yeah, that must be it. They quite...
AMANDA LAMB

We were en route but we got horribly lost, ... We were on the outskirts of Budapest for about an hou...
AMANDA LAMB

Doesn't it cost a lot of money to have all these truckers sitting here?
AMANDA LAMB

Some of these guys have been here a couple of days. Some of these guys have been here a while.
AMANDA LAMB

Do you think it's a waste to have all this stuff sitting here?
AMANDA LAMB

I love my job, and I love my life. I mean, there's the pressures of being away from family and peopl...
AMANDA LAMB

Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.
CHARLES LAMB

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
CHARLES LAMB

In May, we could see things were going from beginning to end, ... But it was a fragile system, and w...
BRIAN LAMB

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with b...
BRIAN LAMB

"From the beginning, we promised folks that they'll see whatever event we cover in its entirety, fro...
BRIAN LAMB

Twenty-five years ago, I was a guy with an idea to give the public access to political events, witho...
BRIAN LAMB

When you add it all up, I've committed about 1.8 years of my life to reading books for the series. I...
BRIAN LAMB

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they thi...
BRIAN LAMB

The users themselves are remarkably responsible.
BRIAN LAMB

Today the Court took up the question of televising these proceedings and a majority of the Court rem...
BRIAN LAMB

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not ...
BRIAN LAMB

We protested and appealed to let our cameras in, but Scalia won and we were kept out, ... Albany is ...
BRIAN LAMB

After careful consideration I've decided we need to move in a different direction from a staffing st...
BOBBY LAMB

Anytime you are ranked No. 2 in the country on the road, people are going to come out gunning for yo...
BOBBY LAMB

We're not shooting from the hip when we talk to recruits about Furman. We're shooting from the heart...
BOBBY LAMB

That's the thing about Furman. I just felt like, if I stayed at Furman long enough I'd get a shot. I...
BOBBY LAMB

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions ar...
BOBBY LAMB

Coming to Furman to play quarterback was just natural for me. But I knew I wanted to go into the coa...
BOBBY LAMB

It had nothing to do with our season because we had an outstanding year.
BOBBY LAMB

His first five days at spring practice were probably the best I've ever seen from anyone. The improv...
BOBBY LAMB

We were good enough to win, to beat the national champion last year. You just got to hand it to Jame...
BOBBY LAMB

They're very potent on offense. Defensively, they're a big strong team. We'll have to establish the ...
BOBBY LAMB

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.
WALLY LAMB

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think abou...
CHARLES LAMB

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
WALLY LAMB

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
CHARLES LAMB

The vices of some men are magnificent.
CHARLES LAMB

There is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident.
CHARLES LAMB

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
CHARLES LAMB

'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB

Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
CHARLES LAMB

Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the co...
CHARLES LAMB

Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily.
CHARLES LAMB

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
WALLY LAMB

This is what we've all been hoping and waiting for. This breaks the record for most distant explosio...
DONALD LAMB

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.
BRIAN LAMB

Consumer purchase data this year show purchases of potatoes, rice, pasta, gravy, sauces, fresh veg a...
CHRIS LAMB

The trumpet does no more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudi...
CHARLES LAMB

He worked so hard to prepare for the season, changed his throwing motion, and then it all came crash...
TOM LAMB

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
WALLY LAMB

Dog-strangling vine is one of the worst things to hit the planet.
LARRY LAMB

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their ti...
CHARLES LAMB

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.
CHARLES LAMB

I'm the average, everyday underdog and I want everyone to know we can do this, together, all of us. ...
CHUCK LAMB

A little thin, flowery border round, neat, not gaudy.
CHARLES LAMB

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
WALLY LAMB

I'm looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging.
VICTORIA LAMB

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.
CHARLES LAMB

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races,...
CHARLES LAMB

Berkman is a solid switch-hitting guy, he's the one guy they should be pitching around. Berkman is a...
MIKE LAMB

In every charge, in every count, she was an active participant in the sexual assault of these childr...
DAVID LAMB

A child's a plaything for an hour.
CHARLES LAMB

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not ...
BRIAN 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

I think, in some ways, I like it when people tell me what they're thinking. I would rather have ...
BRIAN LAMB

Mr. Mook has openly said, 'Dancers aren't athletes,' even though the cheerleaders are allowed to per...
ANYA LAMB

I think a lot of us are starting to feel that sports are taking precedence over every other activity...
ANYA LAMB

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were...
WALLY LAMB

You hear stories of when the Astros were playing San Diego [in 1998] and having to face Kevin Brown ...
MIKE LAMB

Sometimes things are so insanely private, you don't even want to talk about them with yourself. Don'...
CATHY LAMB

Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselv...
CHARLES 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

The greatest thing about the call-in show is that you always felt like you were on a high wire witho...
BRIAN LAMB

We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewer...
BRIAN LAMB

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.
BRIAN LAMB

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
WALLY LAMB

Gone before / To that unknown and silent shore.
CHARLES LAMB

Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he i...
CHARLES LAMB

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street....
WALLY LAMB

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All...
CHARLES LAMB

This is a crime like I've never seen, one of infinite cruelty. They (the children) were infinitely h...
DAVID LAMB

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever
CHARLES LAMB

What is reading, but silent conversation.
CHARLES LAMB

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as an...
CHARLES LAMB

We have a deeper team than we had last year. We have quality in all areas with more athletes (100) o...
CORTNEY LAMB

It [a pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
CHARLES LAMB

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.
CHARLES LAMB

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

Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creato...
CHARLES LAMB

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it
CHARLES LAMB

It's the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins in...
WALLY LAMB

Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!
K. LAMB

I think that her success came in large part because she understood volleyball quickly. She's got it ...
CHRIS LAMB

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dyi...
CHARLES LAMB

Truths, which transcend the searching School-men's vein, / And half had staggered that stout Stagiri...
CHARLES LAMB

Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below?
CHARLES LAMB

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less
CHARLES LAMB

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport
CHARLES LAMB

I feel particularly sad about the families,
CHARLES LAMB

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.
CHARLES LAMB

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing
CHARLES LAMB

I hate a man who swallows it [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his tast...
CHARLES LAMB

There is a pleasure in affecting affectation
CHARLES LAMB

I came home . . . hungry as a hunter.
CHARLES LAMB

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it
CHARLES LAMB

His face when he repeats his verses hath its ancient glory, an Archangel a little damaged.
CHARLES LAMB

When I consider how little of a rarity children are / that every street and blind alley swarms with ...
CHARLES LAMB

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides
CHARLES LAMB

I could never hate anyone I knew
CHARLES LAMB

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon ...
CHARLES LAMB

Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved
CHARLES LAMB

Marshall comes with a great pedigree and other teams are going to be aware of that. He draws the bes...
JASON LAMB

We have the lowest average we've ever had. When they step foot on the tee, I think each player is th...
JOHN LAMB

Billy is a natural at it (coaching). Football's in his blood.
TOM LAMB

Officer Bennett was the man. It was mostly a mop-up for us.
DAVID LAMB

I know a lot of people who have used it.
LARRY LAMB

Most of us don't think of what we're doing beyond the property line.
LARRY LAMB

All the time we were there, you could see that dead squirrel right out in plain sight. Whenever anyo...
WALLY LAMB

War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.

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War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.

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