Biographie Quotes

#1. I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

Edmund White

#2. When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.

James H. Boren

#3. Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?

Randolph Sinks Foster

#4. It's pretty clear that there's a relationship between return and risk - you enjoy high returns only by taking substantial risk. If you want to earn high returns, be prepared to suffer grievous losses from time to time. And if you want perfect safety, resign yourself to low returns.

William J. Bernstein

#5. Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. One of my favourites is 'American Beauty.' Spacey is so good in that.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#7. After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected.

Hjalmar Schacht

#8. Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. We live in an odd world, where books are filled with expressions of love, and lives devoid of it.

Meeta Ahluwalia

#10. Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

Daniel Defoe

#11. I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#12. The # knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.

R.A. Dickey

#13. I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Elizabeth Taylor

#14. There's a lot of hypocrisy in audiences. I'd never dream of telling even on a nightclub stage, let alone my show, some of the jokes that are told in a lot of the living rooms from which we get those letters!

Johnny Carson