Quote by William Bolitho Download Open image ““They lived autobiographies”” — William Bolitho ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Autobiographies are always written as if the author had it all mapped out with perfect foresight, ignoring the risks and uncertainties at that time.… — Raghuram G. Rajan Copy Share Image
Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer. — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
“Aren’t autobiographies born in a question we ask ourselves: how did I get to this point? Don’t we look back over the path and… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
“In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“It's so embarrassing to think that someone is actually interested in what you're thinking. And in that regard, it's almost unbelievable that autobiographies are… — Oddný Eir Copy Share Image
[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that. — Deborah Kerr Copy Share Image
“Everyone is an autobiographer nowadays, it’s like everyone is actively writing their own biography all the time,” — James Wallman Copy Share Image
“Their own life together was like a subtle watercolor sketch, invisible to other people. They gave the world what it required of them and… — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
“Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“To a Bonaparte it represents what Jacob Astor meant when he said, “The first hundred thousand dollars are the most difficult.” It is the… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“All these outposts were broken in,and that which in other histories would have counted as three victories did not delay the progress of Charles… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, isone of the most perilous and arduous specialisations of the imagination. On the one handthere is the hostility of God… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“The adventurer, by minimum definition, is an individualist. The life of adventure is an unsocial game; therefore in direct contrast with the married, supported… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“Like most people of his temperament, though sociable, he (Napolean) disliked company in which he would have to appear merely as one of the… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“Napoleon fell into the situation that is the misery of many men of action, and lost the power of enjoying things directly, by himself.… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image