On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an… — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences… — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy… — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom… — Henry James Copy Share Image
As an elected official who comes from the African-American community, there are some similarities. You are always trying to reconcile your own… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country. — Ivan Bagramyan Copy Share Image
Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer. — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
Find a great role model, perhaps someone who struggled and only really succeeded when older. Their biography and what they've done differently… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a film that wasn't just a biography. When you watched it, you actually felt that you watched a… — Tamra Davis Copy Share Image
Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot… — Aharon Appelfeld Copy Share Image
His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most… — Max Born Copy Share Image
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action.… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Some of the biographies [of princess Margaret] were really sensationalist, News of the World sorts, but they were great because they also… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
“in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall,… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
I read everything that Tolkien wrote, and also read biographies of him. I was fascinated by his experiences in World War I,… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men!… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
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![“[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.” quote by Henry James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc5/henry-james-417_biographies_thomas-henry-huxley-is-a-very-genial-com_405431.jpg)
![“For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frazer, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies…” quote by Bronislaw Malinowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/011/bronislaw-malinowski-37631_anthropology_for-no-sooner-had-i-begun-to-read-this-g_1356364.jpg)
![“His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent, amusing, temperamental, kind and generous, and he had a most perfect and efficient brain.” quote by Max Born](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d75/max-born-17349_amusing_his-erwin-schr-dinger-s-private-life-see_2165940.jpg)
![“How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If…” quote by Chris Matthews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ad/chris-matthews-1682_arthur_how-much-he-was-shaped-by-being-in-the-h_550395.jpg)
![“Some of the biographies [of princess Margaret] were really sensationalist, News of the World sorts, but they were great because they also gave first and secondhand accounts of her at home. The butlers come forward and give little moments, some of which you discard and some which ring somehow true…” quote by Vanessa Kirby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d80/vanessa-kirby-7869_accounts_some-of-the-biographies-of-princess-marg_1201074.jpg)
