Biography Quotes

[Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower] 'No other contemporary officer approached his accumulated experience...' From Champion of the Quarterdeck: Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower 1742-1814.

But at the time I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself then my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl.

—a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.

Monotony is the only reward of the cautious

Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it.

It's a terrific book and I can't wait for the movie, " says Phillip Adams on Late Night Live, ABC Radio National.

Was he a good father?"To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No, " I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good father, but he was a good man."Where Dad came from, that meant a great deal more.

When asked if she would accept his affairs to try to keep her marriage, she commented, "I do. I think that speaks for itself.

To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.

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Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.

To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind.

Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, a frail balloon drifting into the sky as into infinity.

That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can’t confront it.

I have had a lot of readers of my book tell me that they like it, but so far only two reviews have been listed. Could you help?

She will speculate that she didn’t fully know her husband—this will give her leverage to seek him, to come to know him. It will keep her husband “alive” in her memory—elusive, teasing.

How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray’s best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling—almost—exhilarated.

To Howard Goodkin, for the immense work he did in his short life so Hispanic children can stand tall and proud.

Virtually every literary piece written about Adolf Hitler in more than half a century since 1945 has been based on anti

The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.

May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.

She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.

For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today.

Nicky Cruz: You come near me and I'll kill you!David Wilkerson: Yeah, you could do that. You could cut me up into a thousand pieces and lay them in the street, and every piece will still love you.

When you see the Statue of Liberty, you will be in America.

Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the Reich fawned over him and worshipped him with total devotion.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler

I would plead into the darkness, where are they, bring them back

I don't know enough to have any regrets

The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no amount of reason or common sense can discourage you. You must selfishly carry on.

She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.

Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on rare occasions he was tempted to do so.

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.

I only read books I know I will like

Honey, I work for money not love.

If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own.

Start to focus on things that unite the races of people instead of things that divide us, and you will have already won the battle, and are a building block to the solution.

You can’t hang out with negative people and live a positive life. Run from them!

She was an autocrat, didn't really believe in democracy. The benefit of her approach was that, if you work with twenty people and ask everybody's opinion, you would never achieve what she did.

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever.

(...)it seems more probable that his anti-Semitism was less emotional and more objective than has been assumed to the pre

To comprehend the Hitler of 1919 is to comprehend the Hitler of the entire period from 1919 through

Although characterized as uncultured and unread, Hitler comes off in his demands to create a monumental signature for a Greater Germany as historically and artistically gi

The intellectually-inclined biographers stray from the point that the message is directed through the spoken word at the broad masses and not writing to an inbred, self-adoring intellectual e

The great biographers take excessive liberties in denigrating his person, and, in doing so, they make it difficult to comprehend

Do not follow other's quotes, because you're the one who knows about yourself, and what is suitable for you. everyone has their own quotes. So make yours too.

I hope this book helps people to heal & their not the only one because no one is a mistake God put you on earth for one reason. I am not a mistake.

I do not think my life would make a very interesting book, ' I say. 'I feel I can speak with a certain amount of authority here.

Hitler took the action of pitiless massacre as a last resort in the face of a perceived irreconcilable e