The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing.… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the… — Meryle Secrest Copy Share Image
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my Travels. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him. — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that. — Nina Blackwood Copy Share Image
In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time. — Alice Stewart Copy Share Image
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife.… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them… — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy,… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I very comprehensively studied Irving Thalberg and his biographies. He's who [Scott] Fitzgerald roughly modeled the character after. He worked for him,… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No… — Marjory Stoneman Douglas Copy Share Image
The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told - because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second… — Joseph Campbell 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
I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists… — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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