Semi Autobiography Quotes & Sayings

James Cain was saddled with being called the father of hardboiled fiction. Apparently, he didn't like this saddle. — Bill Callahan

Why settle for so little in life when you can have so much just by daring to be different in your thinking. — Catherine Ponder

How you choose to respond to each moment of the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends. — Sherrie Eldridge

The hours and days you spend being annoyed or frustrated are times when you deny yourself access to life's best possibilities. When you live in anger and resentment, you cut yourself off from life's goodness. — Ralph Marston

I'm privileged that I'm an artist. — Nelly Furtado

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child? — Phyllis Bottome

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner. — George Jean Nathan

Where strangers scanned each other's faces and found yesterday's sunrise instead of tomorrow's midnight. — Ray Bradbury

I hate cages. For most folks, they're built from fear and they do it to themselves. Not me. Mine were forged of helplessness. Most kids' are. — Karen Marie Moning

Syd always gets in there. — David Gilmour

I love fashion, but it's always been my job, whereas horseriding is my hobby. — Carson Kressley

In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances. — Allison Williams

In April war was declared with Germany. Wilson and his cabinet - a cabinet that in its lack of distinction was strangely reminiscent of the twelve apostles - let loose the carefully starved dogs of war, and the press began to whoop hysterically against the sinister morals, sinister philosophy, and sinister music produced by the Teutonic temperament. Those who fancied themselves particularly broad-minded made the exquisite distinction that it was only the German Government which aroused them to hysteria; the rest were worked up to a condition of retching indecency. Any song which contained the word "mother" and the word "kaiser" was assured of a tremendous success. At last every one had something to talk about - and almost every one fully enjoyed it, as though they had been cast for parts in a sombre and romantic play. — F Scott Fitzgerald