It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.' — Bernard Malamud 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
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
Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla:… — Robert Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got… — Ernest Jones 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
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I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her… — Alexandra Roach Copy Share Image
Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 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
Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read.… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
Whenever I felt tempted to, I don’t know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this Brandeis biography, I… — Jeffrey Rosen 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
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
Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
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