Appetite Quote by Charles Baudelaire

There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes…

— Antonio Damasio

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry…

— Henry David Thoreau

My entire life has been guided by a sense of equality, equality for loved ones.

— Ashraf Ghani

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with…

— George Eliot

Music is an expression, a deep-seated feeling.

— Jon Hopkins

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent…

— Joan Didion

The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I…

— Ron Chernow

I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or…

— Albert Goldbarth

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive…

— Theodore Dalrymple

All Philosophy is Biography

— Peter J. Carroll

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best…

— Samuel Smiles

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

— Emmylou Harris