Biography Quote by Simon Sebag Montefiore Download Open image “I'd like to write a biography of Ivan the Terrible.” — Simon Sebag Montefiore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biography Ivan The Terrible Like Terrible Write
“Ivan had never thought of his nightmares as being insufficiently imaginative, before tonight. Dark, wet, constricted, underground, check. How had he left out biohazards?… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If Ivan the Terrible had been kissed and loved between zero and three, he probably would have become Ivan Not So Terrible. If you're… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“Ivan felt an intense hatred for him before he had thought about him at all. Suddenly he realised his presence and felt an irresistible… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject. — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
“To understand what was in Ivan’s mind, one has to think back to what the world was like before Machiavelli. The modern calculus of… — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible". Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life as terrible… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom. — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
I really wanted to go Russia. I'm really interested in Russian history, so I'd like to go and put a face to what I've… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
Trump wants to be the first American tsar. With his hero worship of Putin, his admiration for the apparent omnipotence of the Kremlin, schoolboyish… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon” — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Every Russian emperor from Peter the Great to Stalin and Putin knows a leader and his security agencies must never be parted. His safety… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“Sex fills a few hours of our lives yet those precious minutes count for more than months and years” — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“Iraq was already in the grip of a bloody insurgency against British rule. Churchill therefore called a conference in Cairo to hand over a… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I don't think Jerusalem should be controlled 100% by religious people of any denomination, sect, or religion - even my own. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the last years… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I am a passionate nonfinisher. Life is too short, and there are too many great books to read, so if I lose interest or… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
There is a view of Russian exceptionalism, that they are a unique civilisation, a view right since Ivan the Terrible that Russia is a… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
“If you can choose your way into a cage, you can choose your way out.” — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first made it. The biggest thing I learnt… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express… — Joel Spector Larry Geller Patricia Romanowski Copy Share Image
“Maybe he'd never come acrross anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard;… — Aiden Shaw Copy Share Image
It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
“Pong had mutated into large stand-up Sega consoles by '82 and here was some extra revenue the guys were well up for. So the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
“The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home” — Estella M. Chung Copy Share Image
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
