Personal Account Quotes

There is properly no history; only biography.

Biography is the best form of history.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.

An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

I believe that we should allow younger workers to contribute toward a personal account that they own, as long as it is coupled with deficit reduction measures that enhance the long-term condition of Social Security.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of stuff that happened to me.

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.

I don't like that word [memoir]. Whenever my publishers have wanted to use it, I've told them to take it away.

I'll be at Lambeth telling my story

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.

'Two' is not written in the usual style of a novel. It's a straightforward, linear narrative of my times, as I observed partition, and is told through multiple characters.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.

I made a mistake. I should've had two accounts, one for personal and one for office. And I didn't, and I take responsibility for that.

I don't have a personal Facebook or Twitter account.

We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything.

I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.