According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing… — Burton Silverman Copy Share Image
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it… — Pixie Lott Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
I got a four year scholarship to Harvard, and while I was there they wanted to groom me for work in the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era. — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan… — Miranda Raison Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates. — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
I read a lot by female psychoanalyst Lou Andreas-Salomé, who wrote prominent biographies of Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud because she studied with… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach.… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
