Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.
Ellery Sedgwick
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PROVERB A good meal ought to begin with hunger.
FRENCH PROVERB My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.
THOMAS HELM What people ought to do is find out what a national park is to begin with.
MICHAEL FROME I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but wi...
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LOU GERSTNER A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter...
ROB BELL "We each have a choice, we can continue with the same chapter of our life, or begin a new one. You a...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -W...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING plea bargain to begin with for killing two people and getting probation.
BRUCE NELSON We managed to write chapter one. Chapter two, we will have a child a parent can take home and raise ...
PANAYIOTIS ZAVOS They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.
LAUREN DESTEFANO I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.
NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
FRANK GELETT BURGESS Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies
FRANK GELETT BURGESS It's another two hits on a ship that is not very seaworthy to begin with.
JAMES WALSTON I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.
BRETT DAVERN The surrounding that householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
T. H. GIBBLINGS And I hate autobiographies, I don't know why.
BEA ARTHUR When we were first married, I thought he must have been the most heartless, hateful man I'd ever kno...
LAUREN DESTEFANO Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971)
I don't know how she did it. Fire
She was shaking all over...
PATTI SMITH Prejudice in this country is like chapters in a book. Chapter One: Hating the Africans and Indians. ...
EMILIE RICHARDS You know women ought to be like bank notes. You ought to be able to exchange one 40 for two 20's.
W. C. FIELDS In two weeks they ought to be able to file those amendments. We're going to have to get on with this...
MARSHALL CRISER This is the outcome we were working towards. Chicago is a great city and John is taking the team in ...
JEFF SCHWARTZ [Autobiographies] are all the same -- it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned i...
DEBORAH KERR I think Stella Tennant is amazing. And then I really loved all those '60s society models, like E...
EDIE CAMPBELL I got involved with it and sort of discovered the story chapter by chapter as I went along,
JACK WILLIAMSON Every race is a chapter. Those are two important races. Who knows what Sunday will bring?
RICHARD PETTY This is the outcome we were working towards. Chicago is a great city and John (Paxson) is taking the...
JEFFREY SCHWARTZ Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.
PAUL STANLEY The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last tw...
HAROLD ACTON Grim is one way to describe it. We're faced with a serious financial challenge on how we can do the ...
COMMISSIONER DAVE UNRUH It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It i...
STEVE MARABOLI I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Edie Sedgwick, Debbie Harry, Chloe Sevigny, Michelle Obama, and my friend Eugenie Niarchos each have...
ELISABETH VON THURN UND TAXIS To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...
ALVIN TOFFLER Anyone can learn how to communicate with animals if they are open to the process and willing to prac...
KAREN A. ANDERSON I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
RANBIR KAPOOR I love watching old movies, and I read a lot of autobiographies.
WINONA RYDER We, his remaining friends, have spent the last day with Duke praying and talking about a new chapter...
DUNCAN HUNTER There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of t...
PAUL GAUGUIN My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong a...
ESTELLE PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.
SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.
NEW PROBLEM ...
GERALD M. WEINBERG I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.
ROLLIE FINGERS The ballot did two things. One was to indicate teams that you thought ought to be considered - 1 to ...
CHARLES HARRIS They're coming in on chapter 48 of a 200-chapter Russian novel. I mean, things happen in year one, e...
RICHARD PRICE On Perseverance – Persistence is admirable. Stubbornness is stupid. Just remember: the latter two ...
MARSHA HINDS To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU It was just another chapter in a great rivalry, another story of two great teams fighting hard for o...
LANCE JETER There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, wh...
GEORGE SAINTSBURY Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Early-onset depression is thought to begin in the teenage years but in fact it is turning out to be ...
ADRIAN ANGOLD I'm elated. This is chapter two. We've got aviation on the way again. We are looking forward to a ve...
LAURA FISCHER With every opinion, it is closing another chapter in the story.
KEVIN NEELY I'm always embarrassed by those rugby player autobiographies which get written by journalists.
PETER JACKSON The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.
LORD EDWARD THURLOW Two and a half years on, we must begin to bring this occupation to an end.
SIR MENZIES CAMPBELL With the two extremes, ranching was either something to be done away with, or something that shouldn...
BILL MCDONALD After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident, you begin to wonder about history.
UNKNOWN The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.
I started to write ...
ESKAY TEEL Most of the airlines will begin with one or two flights a day and grow back to their original pre-hu...
BRUCE FRALLIC Amari swung around in her seat to look back and there was indeed a small girl sitting on the boundar...
SIAN B. CLAVEN In the beginning when we formed our chapter, one of the things that we never wanted to do was to be ...
MARLA MILLER We ought to face our destiny with courage.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Begin with another's to end with your own.
BALTASAR GRACIAN There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
H. L. MENCKEN Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
OSCAR WILDE It's not fair to say that people who work with their head or with their hands ought to pay taxes, bu...
PHIL GRAMM You're Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'
'REVELATIONS. CHAPTER SIX.
NEIL GAIMAN CHAPTER 14
ERIN HUNTER Chapter 27.
JARED LETO Marley was dead: to begin with.
CHARLES DICKENS you weren't mine to begin with.
IAIN S. THOMAS For when two
Join in the same adventure, one perceives
Before the other how they ought to act;...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") It's on to the next chapter.
RUSLAN FEDOTENKO If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
STANISLAW LESZCZYNSKI To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
STANISLAUS I To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
LESZCZYNSKI STANISLAUS ("STANISLAUS I") To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
KING STANISLAUS OF POLAND I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it ...
EDIE CAMPBELL With the legislation in play now, we would have to make cuts ranging from one to two million dollars...
LARRY FEINBERG That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to fe...
JOHN UPDIKE A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.
ANITA LOOS There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans ...
BORIS VIAN Great rolls of toilet paper arc like ejaculate through the black sycamores.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG Mankind has two immense problems, they forget to use logic and begin at the root of each trouble.
K.R. ROYAL I am intrigued. I am fearless.
LAUREN DESTEFANO I am charming. I am fearless.
LAUREN DESTEFANO Just being alive feels so arduous that all I want to do is climb under the covers and sleep.
LAUREN DESTEFANO One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.
GEORGE ELIOT The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many...
MARGARET ATWOOD I never chased Hank to begin with.
BARRY BONDS Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres o...
ROBERT GROSSETESTE We will not be paying commentators to advance our agenda. Our agenda ought to be able to stand on it...
ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS Begin with another's to end with your own.
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