Memoirs Quotes

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do - well, that's Memoirs. (Will Rogers)
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. View quote
David Ben-Gurion
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country, and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs. View quote
Will Rogers
The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. View quote
Manuel Puig
I will leave no memoirs. View quote
Comte de Lautreamont
Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs. View quote
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature. View quote
James Frey
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; He spoke of a place in the heart. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers, giving them not only a faithful picture, but likewise human documents that may be relied upon. View quote
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely assimilated when it is in the nascent state... View quote
James Clerk Maxwell
Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs. View quote
John F. Kennedy
A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way. View quote
Homer Hickam
The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality. One's gaze never lingers on the suffering humanity of Christ, but penetrates behind the kenotic veil. To the West's mysticism of the Cross and its veneration of the Sacred Heart corresponds the eastern mysticism of the sealed tomb, from which eternal life eternal wells up. View quote
Paul Evdokimov
But who has time to write memoirs? I'm still living my memoirs. View quote
Rebecca Wells
We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh. View quote
Andy Hertzfeld
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. View quote
Bill Clinton
Most of his [Euler's] memoirs are contained in the transactions of the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, and in those of the Academy at Berlin. From 1728 to 1783 a large portion of the Petropolitan transactions were filled by his writings. He had engaged to furnish the Petersburg Academy with memoirs in sufficient number to enrich its acts for twenty years a promise more than fulfilled, for down to 1818 [Euler died in 1793] the volumes usually contained one or more papers of his. It has been said that an edition of Euler's complete works would fill 16,000 quarto pages. View quote
Florian Cajori
Maybe he one day - perhaps we will have to wait for his memoirs - could account for his role in the most disastrous decision of all, which is the illegal invasion of Iraq. (Nick Clegg)
I have discovered a goodness and decency in people as exhibited in all the letters, e-mails, flowers, gifts and prayers that have been directed my way. I am overwhelmed and humbled. I offer you my most sincere thanks and my deep and abiding gratitude. If I ever write my memoirs, I have some spellbinding material. How does the Joni Mitchell song go? "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone"? One thing I've discovered is that I love my job more than I thought I did, and I love my wife even more! View quote
Roger Ebert
I could list some Japanese films illustrating this, but the last thing the audience for Memoirs of a Geisha wants to see is a more truthful film with less gorgeous women and shabbier production values. View quote
Roger Ebert
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. View quote
Gloria Swanson
I'll be eighty this month. Age, if nothing else, entitles me to set the record straight before I dissolve. I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. View quote
Gloria Swanson