Nigel Hamilton Quotes

For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwined. Get the facts wrong, or distort them, and the life story gets distorted: becomes fiction.

Nigel Hamilton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 16, 1944

Topics

LifeHistoryStoryFactsLife Story

I'm not a natural employer. I live very privately, and we like our privacy at home. To be sitting and talking with your wife or your family and to have somebody walking around and you're ignoring them, I couldn't handle that at all. I can barely handle a cleaning lady coming in every so often.

Jim Carter

FamilyHomeLiveWifeWalkingYou

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

Joel C. Rosenberg

SpiritualCountryPriceMoralOur

They've turned this character into a human being.

Melinda Clarke

CharacterHumanHuman BeingBeing

When we label human beings and flatten them to just a splashy headline, we lose decency and the truth.

Amanda Knox

TruthLoseHumanDecencyJustLabel

I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored.

Trisha Goddard

GodMyselfThinkingPlanFindNew

When I need to decompress, I grab a glass of wine, some popcorn, and a great book.

Shira Goodman

GreatBookWineGlassPopcornNeed

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

Mitch Albom

SongStoryBadDarkNobodyWhy

When you're tense and you're forcing the issue, you kind of cloud your vision, so I think just being confident and super relaxed, waiting for my timing, has really helped me.

Luke Rockhold

VisionWaitingMeThinkConfident

Maybe I can't write without painting myself into a corner first.

Lou Barlow

MyselfPaintingWriteFirstWithout

I try to have the right thing happen at the end of the case, try to have the case have a moral compass to it, try to do a little teaching while I'm at it because that's the, you know, that's the preacher in me.

Judy Sheindlin

MeEndYouMoralKnowCompass

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Julia Margaret Cameron

GrowthProcessBackSpiralItself

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

Jonathan Safran Foer

SpaceTreesRealityFishProblem

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