Quotes of: Autobiography Keyword

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

Fire in the Rain...Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography

A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

Martin Filler

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader's Edition

When someone who's starved of love is shown something that looks like sincere affection, is it any wonder that she jumps at it and clings to it?

Autobiography of a Geisha

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

The Long Haul: An Autobiography

One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

A politician’s autobiography is a book that’s nothing more than a collection of paper, like toilet paper, only it’s stacked instead of rolled.  

Sleepwalking is restercise

Books are all very well in their way, and we love them at Sagamore Hill; but children are better than books.

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

The point, I decided, wasn't to have the autobiography or even the memories. The point was who I became when I wrote.

On The Threshold: Home, Hardwood, and Holiness

Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.

Wings of Fire: An Autobiography

The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.

Jonathan Raban

What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me.

An Autobiography

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Oscar Wilde

I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

Pat Morita

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

Matthew McGrory

I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang themselves with their own rope.

Scott Adsit

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.

Harold Brodkey

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

Jane Smiley