Memoirs Quotes · Page 3

Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'

— Peter Capaldi

But who has time to write memoirs? Im still living my memoirs

— Anonymous

“None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.”

— James Vescovi

“If I am to write my memoirs someday I would like to have good material to work with.”

— James Cambias

“Not for nothing, but if you do that again, I'm gonna have to punch ya fuckin' heart out!”

— Cyndi Lauper

He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.

— Torvald Gahlin

I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.

— Bruce Willis

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

— Joe Eszterhas

I have some very good friends who've written memoirs, but it's not for me. It's just not a format that I'm interested…

— Justine Bateman

“Just as there can be a hole in these narratives, a memoir can be as much about what's forgotten as what's remembered.”

— Jane Alison

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it…

— Pat Barker

“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and…

— Barbara Blatner

I get about five memoirs per week in my mailbox, and few of them inspire anything but a desire to pick up…

— Mary Karr

I've always loved reading diaries and memoirs and just getting a sense of different personalities and what made them tick as individuals.

— Margaret MacMillan

“I feel like a massive wave of life just washed over me. While luck comes in many guises, winning the lottery pales…

— Charles Dyson

I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha'…

— Michelle Yeoh

“They [his readers, whom he asks to be his friends] will find that I have always loved truth so passionately that I…

— Casanova

“Most of the time our inner voice tries to guide us to ‘Truth’ but we, out of our own vested interests, wish…

— Kapil Kumar Bhaskar

I rent a Jacobean-fronted hunting lodge in Hampshire from the National Trust and like to go there as much as possible. I've…

— Nicholas Haslam

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I like the freedom of novels. With the memoirs, I always had to keep to the facts. I like that with novels,…

— Carol Drinkwater

The best memoirs - like This Boy's Life, or Crazy Brave [by Joy Harjo], for instance - bring you through a private…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't…

— Al Pacino

“Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well..." She looked up and out through the barred…

— Jennings Michael Burch

“I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it,…

— Wendy K. Williamson

“The framers were wise in their generation and wanted to do the very best possible to secure their own liberty and independence,…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Mother took the big saw from me and walked over to the orange tree which stood at one end of the totally…

— Christina Crawford

“U međuvremenu, opet po savetu nekih ličnosti koje su dobro poznavale umetničku sredinu i “ambijent”, potražio sam Gijoma Apolinera. On je stanovao…

— Giorgio de Chirico

“Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Every book adds a grain of humility and humanity to the communal ground that we tread. Writing is the one method that…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

My memoirs are full of humor, I had to change jokes because it was a little too dark.

— Marina Abramovic

“Memoirs are noting more than literary masterbation.”

— Christy Leigh Stewart

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

— David Ben-Gurion

I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

— Sally Ride

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

— Patrick O'Brian

I do not repeat conversations that I can't remember. And it's something that irritates me a great deal, because I think most…

— Paul Auster

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.

— Jane Fonda

“To me there is no shame in telling the truth, but ironically, I think shame is usually the reason people don't.”

— Tina Alexis Allen