Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography. — Tom Stoppard 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
[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
If you read philosophical texts of the tradition, you'll notice they almost never said 'I,' and didn't speak in the first person.… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was… — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This… — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this… — John Sayles 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
Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Dreadful is a poignant biography of a forgotten man who drank himself to death. It's a brilliant evocation of a self-hating gay… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
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