Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Irving Stone
Irving Stone Quotes
32 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
Irving Stone
Source
Report...
She swept into the reception room of Miss English's Academy, her hazel eyes bright with anger, the rustle of her taffeta gown raised from a crisp whisper to a cry by the vigor of her movements.
Irving Stone
1
2
Quote of the day
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Irving Stone
Born:
July 14, 1903
Died:
August 26, 1989
(aged 86)
Known for:
Lust for Life (1934)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961)
The Passions of the Mind (1971)
Depths of Glory (1985)
Men to match my mountains (1956)
Most used words:
art
artist
life
human
painted
pictures
Irving Stone on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
American Novelist Quotes
Novelist Quotes
20th-century Novelist Quotes
Related Authors
Michelangelo
Italian Architect
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch Painter
Seán Ó Faoláin
Irish Novelist
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes