Biographers Association Quotes & Sayings

We are working so hard in this country on the details of school improvement that we don't always stop to consider the big picture - if we are actually working on the right things. — David Perkins

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture. — Bertrand Russell

The world of men harbours a morbid condition of overfondness for themselves — Jean Sasson

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power. — Harriet Martineau

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos. — Charles Bukowski

I cannot handle dull, lazy, morose people. I have been like that since childhood. — Ravi Teja

He was a broad-shouldered beast. — Karen Marie Moning

You have compassion but by itself it is not enough. It is almost as if you carry around inside you some dead thing. Some heavy black cinder in your heart that burdens you; a ponderous anchor that tethers you to the past. Until you can burn it away, you can never truly live in the present, in the now. Until you can live in the now, you cannot see things as they really are. Meantime you are a man who is wilfully blind. You have eyes and yet you will not use them. — John Dolan

If you think someone is AWESOME, tell them! The world NEEDS more of THAT! — Tanya Masse

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians. — Barry Goldwater

That's the thing about introverts - we are always waiting to be invited to speak up about what matters to us. If the invitation comes too soon, we'll probably avoid the question, deflecting the focus to the other person. We might want to come closer, but we're not warmed up yet. We're — Michaela Chung

I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits) — August Strindberg

So very Russian," people around were murmuring. That they did meant this was an audience pretty low down on the scale of sophistication, otherwise they would be saying, "Just like us, isn't it? — Doris Lessing

I believe that people, more often than not, act with the best possible intentions. And when they don't, that's funny to me. That's why comedy ends up seeming cynical, because you're talking about the gap between what people say and what they do. — Stephen Colbert

As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and she were dressed in different clothes, I might never have talked to her. She might have projected something that I found distasteful, even if she otherwise looked exactly the same - a beautiful woman to me. — James Gray