Adult Quote by Charles J. Shields

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so…

— Vidal Sassoon

When I left teaching, I don't think anyone I worked with necessarily understood what I did or the level at which I did it…

— Adam Page

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are…

— Penelope Fitzgerald

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

— Walter Isaacson

The 'looking forward' so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era,…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.

— Jerome Powell

When Japan was on the rise, American governors would come to inspect Toyota City and study 'just in time' manufacturing to increase efficiency; when…

— David E. Sanger

When I left Toronto and entered journalism in the late 1990s, I had many notions about the news business, nearly all of them wrong,…

— Tom Rachman

The late 1990s were really a moment of still tremendous hope and optimism about the relationship between Russia and the United States.

— Antony Blinken

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of…

— David Remnick

I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national…

— Hannah Kent