Biographies Quote by Eric Bentley Download Open image “Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.” — Eric Bentley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies Chaps Geography Maps
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on… — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
“Geography is like history. History is the story of mankind since we first started to record it. The story and the understanding of that… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“As a child I harbored a deep interest in geography. I remember that in the library of my house, immersed in my fantasies, my… — Barbara Athanassiadis Copy Share Image
GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions. — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes. — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
“Literature deals with morality but does not necessarily, does not, qua literature, help you to be more moral, either by precept or example. It… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike. — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
“What then is the difference between film and theatre? Or should one not rather ask: what are the differences? Let us be content wi… — Eric Bentley Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
