Biographies Quotes · Page 2

John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.

— John Arbuthnot

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

— Michael Connelly

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than…

— Nigel Hamilton

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

— Mark Shields

Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a…

— David Levering Lewis

“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose…

— Samuel Smiles

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there…

— Angela Carter

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is…

— Graham Greene

When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates…

— Paul Dirac

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

— Dorothy Hodgkin

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

— Michael Holroyd

I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us…

— Hilary Mantel

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick…

— John Green

The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.…

— Robert Aris Willmott

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

— Pamela Stephenson

The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

— Anonymous

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

— Reza Aslan

I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how…

— Victoria Wilson

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a…

— Helena Bonham Carter

That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to…

— Debra Dean

When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.

— Terry Gross

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical…

— Jonas Salk

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen