It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the same today.

Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation… If one is to record one’s life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of...

The French army had crowned a campaign of extraordinary successes by defeating the Austrians at Jemappes and pressing on to occupy a large swathe of Belgium and threaten Holland. For Britain, this changed everything: a...

Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born...

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that...

I have heard the most fantastical gossip about myself and each time I thought, “If only my life were that exciting, fun, outrageous, and sexy”. Then again my memory wasn’t so sharp when I took...

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.

It doesn’t help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: ‘All the time you’re looking left and right at other people,...

Will we ever see his like again? It is doubtful. But at least for a brief moment in time we were lucky to have him as one of our own: an English lionheart who was...

Perhaps the most difficult thing about loving and helping an addict, which most people who haven’t been through it don’t understand, is this: every day the cycle continues is your new worst day. When looked...

The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The...

It’s very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they’re allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they’ve taken from the ground in...

This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by the breeze, had exposed her ankles; he had proposed the following day.

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.