Notable Individuals Quotes

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

You've got two people that are well known in South Dakota, respected. We'll see how it all shakes out.

I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

I like famous people!

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.

Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history.

I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed.

SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.

Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.

To me, it's the outstanding people, people like Jack Kirby that really make a difference, that are very, very important.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

The literary data that we have historically is indeed mostly about leaders or important people.

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

There's a lot of people that have influenced Mr. Trump's life.

Strange people like chefs, musicians, and politicians affect me.

I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or learning them or writing them. And so, by the time the day is done, I usually just want to click on The Bachelor and fall asleep. But I gravitate toward biographies and things like that.

I want to meet Jimmy Fallon. I want to meet Kristin Chenoweth, and I want to meet Ryan Gosling.

Who knows whether the best of men be known? or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time?

I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.