Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Ellery Channing

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

John Arbuthnot

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Eric Bentley

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Kate Fleetwood

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

Martin Lewis Perl

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

James McBride

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

Hilaire Belloc

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Bill Harding

I think investors have become more serious about the impact of taxes because they were saddled with tax bills in 2000 -- but many funds performed poorly as the market crashed.

Mark Zandi

It is going to be a tough winter for many seniors. Not only will they face higher Medicare premiums, but record gasoline prices and higher home heating bills as well.

Bob Grantham

I was disappointed in some respect to see that some of these bills had been submitted have an effective date of July 1, 2007, which is going to be no help to the people who need the relief now.

Ken Mayland

There is a great deal of fear and uncertainty out there. On the one hand it's sad to see peoples' lives disrupted and destroyed. On the other hand, people are worrying about how they are going to pay their gasoline bills and their home heating bills this winter. It makes for a pretty bleak view of the future.

Stan Dixon

We try to provide as much information on the Web site as we can, and we encourage people to calculate their tax bills on the site. We want their help in uncovering any discrepancy or mistake that may be on their bill.

Tom Daschle

We therefore expect more say on how the Senate is run, and that includes everything from deciding what bills are debated on the floor, what goes into conference reports, to deciding committee chairs and ratios, and assigning committee staff and office space,

Heizo Takenaka

I am happy that understanding for the bills is spreading,

Yogi Berra

Bill Dickey learned me all his experience.

Dick Gephardt

President Bush has not yet lived up to his promise to be a reformer with results, ... During the campaign, he said he would fight for bipartisan bills with strong support from all Americans. But instead of putting people first, too often he has put special interests first.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Richard Paul Evans

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

Richelle Mead

But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?” "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it’s not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it’s definitely not true.

Umberto Eco

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

Reza Aslan

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

Rex Stout

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

Vincente Minnelli

It's the story that counts.

Vera Farmiga

I chase after inspiring stories.

Uma Thurman

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.