Philip Guedalla Quotes

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

Philip Guedalla

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 12, 1889 - December 16, 1944

Topics

HistoryFictionBiographyWestEast

I wanna go play my music in a club.

Joe Jonas

MusicPlayGoClubWanna

I couldn't sleep for nights on end, as my brain felt like there were thoughts colliding within it; I obsessed over small details, from saving pennies and polishing each one of them to washing my clothing over and over in the washing machine.

Andy Behrman

SleepThoughtsBrainSmallEndOver

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

John O. Brennan

EducationViolencePovertyTerrorism

I was born on September 30, 1939, in Rosheim, a small medieval city of Alsace in France. My father, Pierre Lehn, then a baker, was very interested in music, played the piano and the organ, and became, later, having given up the bakery, the organist of the city. My mother Marie kept the house and the shop.

Jean-Marie Lehn

FatherMotherMusicCitySmallBorn

Music is always key to me, whether it's 'Miami Vice' or not 'Miami Vice.' It's dictated by the story, about what Crockett and Tubbs and Isabella and Trudy are doing.

Michael Mann

MusicMeStoryKeyMiamiDoing

People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

Lisa Marie Presley

LifeTimePeopleMeControlWeird

My mother cared a lot about clothes. It was a point of friction because when I was a teenager, and I only wanted to wear my father's shirts, and I never wanted to wear makeup, she would say: 'Put on lipstick.' That was her thing.

Deborah Tannen

FatherMotherMakeupClothesSay

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

Claire Bloom

DoingWatchingFormLearned

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next!

Sylvester McCoy

CareerNeverNextWhateverPlanned

It's still funny for me to think of myself as someone who writes historical fiction because it seems like a really fusty, musty term, and yet it clearly applies.

Susan Choi

FunnyMyselfMeThinkSomeoneSeems

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

Martin Chemnitz

I AmLanguageBetterAttentionHuman

That's one of the real downfalls of celebrity. You're something that's about you at some point, and that gets latched onto and pumped into the machinery. Then you start having a million other people telling you who you are, and what you should be doing and why, and it's easy to lose your way.

Lindsey Buckingham

PeopleStartDoingEasyYouLose

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