Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of...
I entered Princeton University as a graduate student in 1959, when the Department of Mathematics was housed in the old Fine Hall. This legendary facility was marvellous in stimulating interaction amon...
(n.) The written history of a person's life.
(n.) Biographical writings in general.
In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role. We were the step...
Who makes things up? Who tells the real story? We all turn our lives into stories. It is a defining characteristic of our species. We retell our experiences. We quickly learn what parts are interestin...
Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you sh
Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
If loving the written word is wrong...I don't want to be right!
Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.
Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!
It's very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they're allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they've taken from the ground in the min...
The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm...
But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.
WE ARE the PULSE of the TIMES!
It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.
Whatever our official pieties, deep down we all believe in lives. The sternest formalists are the loudest gossips, and if you ask a cultural-studies maven who believes in nothing but collective forces...
if you want it really, you get it !!!
Was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.
It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full.
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoug...