"The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life."

-- Leon Edel

#Writing Quotes #Self Quotes #House Quotes

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
“Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.”
“The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.”
“I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?”

Source : Julie Schumacher (2008). “Black Box”, p.58, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.”
“It doesn't endow me, to be honest...”
“As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.”

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