Ann Wroe Quotes
I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.
Ann Wroe
Quotes to Explore
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People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.
Han Suyin
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
Oswald Chambers
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
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To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.
Alex Grey
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There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
Aubrey de Vere
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We drown our doubts in dry champagne and soothe our souls with fine cocaine. I don't know why I even care, we get so high and get nowhere.
Billy Joel
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I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.
Michael Jackson
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If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.
Euripides
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I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.
Ann Wroe