Autobiographically Quotes & Sayings

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. — John F. Kennedy

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

As you ramble on through life, Brother,
Whatever be your goal,
Keep your eye upon the doughnut,
And not upon the hole. — Margaret Atwood

When you go to cable, there are no stations and no affiliates and they allow you to do your show. — George Lopez

Nope. I'm just going to a bookstore,' Gemma replied. 'How dangerous could that be? — Amanda Hocking

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed. — Janet Jackson

I've often found myself looking fondly at the Valentine's cultures in other countries. South Korea, for instance - where women must give chocolate to men. — John Niven

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education. — Jack Kemp

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license. — Michael Franks

Being oneself is completely beyond all motivation. You cannot be yourself for some reason. You are yourself, and no reason is needed. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism. — Jean-Marie Le Pen

She belonged to me. She was all the things I wasn't. And I was all the things she wasn't. Her hand, it fit mine. — Jodi Picoult

Snow-melt in the stream: Mama Nature turning winter's storms into nourishment for the soil, fecundity, and beauty. This is what I must now learn to do with the stormy weather I've been passing through: turn it into beauty, turn it into art, so new life can germinate and bloom.
One example of a creative artist who does this is my friend Jane Yolen, who wrote her exquisite book of poems The Radiation Sonnets while her husband was undergoing treatment for the cancer that would eventually claim his life. This is what all artists must do: take whatever life gives us and "alchemize" it into our art (either directly and autobiographically, as in Jane's book, or indirectly; whatever approach works best), turning darkness into light, spinning straw into gold, transforming pain and hardship into what J.R.R. Tolkien called 'a miraculous grace. — Terri Windling

For those of you who worry that I am a skinhead and anything that goes along with that, I am not. — Mark Zupan

When Khrushchev asked whether his brass hats would guarantee that keeping the missiles in Cuba would not bring about nuclear war, they looked at him, he later told Norman Cousins of the Saturday Review, an informal emissary between Kennedy and Khrushchev, "as though I were out of my mind or, what was worse, a traitor. So I said to myself, 'To hell with these maniacs.'"6 — Robert F. Kennedy

When the sex is persuasively rendered, it tends to read autobiographically, and there are limits to my desire for immersion in a stranger's biochemistry. — Jonathan Franzen

Real life is the present moment - not the memories of the past which is dead and gone, nor the dreams of the future which is not yet born. One who lives in the present moment lives the real life, and he is happiest. — Walpola Rahula

The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed. — Samuel Beckett