Prophetic Biography/early Compilations of S%c4%abra

Famous quotes containing the words prophetic, biography and/or early:

    “But though Heaven made him poor, with reverence speaking,
    He never was a poet of God’s making;
    The midwife laid her hand on his thick skull,
    With this prophetic blessing—Be thou dull;”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.”
    —Richard Holmes (b. 1945)

    “We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)