I was born with my eyes turned inward.

I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. … I can digest philosophy better than food.

Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home

You don’t have to drink this,” I said, handing him the champagne. “But Sandy might like it”.”No,no. Come on, let’s have some,” he grinned, popping the cork, taking a swig from the bottle and passing...

In filmbees you will find how everything is well categorize for you so that you can read all the news not from the Bollywood industry but from the Hollywood, south Movies, Bollywood movie information etc…...

George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife – a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we’ve lost reside, unscathed,...

At Bow Street Magistrates’ Court the essential facts were established. The man’s name was James Tilly Matthews. He was a pauper of the south London parish of Camberwell. He had a wife and a young...

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

As we travel in time and on Equator, we will find our souls and then move in time towards time.

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

When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man’s biography regarding God’s promised experiences and truth for him – his individual, unique...

I have the worst kind of history—a non history. I wasn’t born poor, oppressed, rich, famous, or any other such extreme. I was born in the middle, and I desperately want to hide it.

The Question is actually the answer

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could go wrong.

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.

I entered Princeton University as a graduate student in 1959, when the Department of Mathematics was housed in the old Fine Hall. This legendary facility was marvellous in stimulating interaction among the graduate students and...

The Ritz Hotel was grand, sophisticated, and established, unlike me. The only thing we had in common was façade. Mine may not have been as ornate but it was equally phony. I was presenting myself...

Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

Malone’s commentary on Sonnet 93 was a defining moment in the history not only of Shakespeare studies but also of literary biography in general. What has emerged in our time as a dominant form of...

There were two worlds, two lives, for each person: this one–brief, narrow, finite; and the hereafter– eternal, limitless, infinite. Fame, to mean anything, should go with one into the next world, where one could enjoy...

I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex,...

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

No man is a caricature, no individual can alone bear responibilty for a nation’s collapse. The disaster Zaire became, the dull acquiescence of its people, had its roots in a history of extraordinary outside interference,...

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.

As the wildly favorable word of mouth spread, however, the box office receipts began to soar. First, fans of musicals came. Then the ever-growing cadre of Julie Andrews devotees. Finally, those longing for a happy...

If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet how reluctant we are!

Luggage and guests did not travel together … in fact, luggage went by a different route, so suitcases could be distributed to guest rooms before they arrived

Didn’t they teach you that in biography school?

Mechanically I carried on across the Irish Sea, noticing with a jaundiced eye that it had suddenly lost the sinister threat of no-man’s-land and was transformed into a placid highway where ferry-steamers would soon chug...

Gregor flushed as he went on: “The entire content of the Confesions could be put into one single sentence in the book: when Augustine addresses God, saying: ‘Thou hast made us for Thyself and our...

Many had suspected that the political disasters of the past few years had a hidden cause. The bloodiness of the French mob rule was something unnatural, with a pitiless and inhuman progression that had never...

I only read books I know I will like

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born the greatest and noblest of the Western World; an immense personality, — unique,...

She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it.

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

He wasn’t a great man, but he had a great life.

But, mad or sane, Matthews was a man of no ordinary persistence. He was not prepared to renounce the peace plan, any more than he would be prepared to renounce his madness a few years...

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.

Give me a fucking pre-med you fuckers, I’m a personal friend of Sir Lancelot Spratt.

Maybe he’d never come across anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard; one of the tricks of my trade was the ability to...

December 29, 1946: Snowing this morning. The year seems to be dying in a light white blanket. Only three more days of this year, then comes a new one. Then, what? No one knows. —...

Always do what you’re afraid to do”-Robert F. Kennedy

The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God’s Spirit. We...

Before the magisterial mess of Trevor Thomas’s house, the orderly houses that most of us live in seem meagre and lifeless — as, in the same way, the narratives called biographies pale and shrink in...

World’s worst writer.” If you’re wondering why I rate all my work one star, it’s because the rating system doesn’t have a zero star option, or better yet, go into negative numbers.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

When will the human race choose wisely? All know it is just as eventful, if not more so, when the young seek adventure, purpose, and dreams; instead of blaming everyone but themselves if they choose...