Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives. — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks Copy Share Image
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did a lot before [being cast] because I knew how important it would be for playing somebody real, or attempting to… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference… — William Wilson Morgan Copy Share Image
I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates… — Paul Dirac 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
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it… — Michio Kaku 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
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
Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose… — Frances Hodgson Burnett 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
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
Like when you pick up a book and you don't realize what type of text it is - it could be an… — Sergio Chejfec Copy Share Image
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![“I did a lot before [being cast] because I knew how important it would be for playing somebody real, or attempting to - to show the team [the role] was something I would be fascinated to do. I read a couple of biographies and I watched everything I could find [about princess Margaret].” quote by Vanessa Kirby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a0a/vanessa-kirby-7869_attempting_i-did-a-lot-before-being-cast-because-i_2867445.jpg)
![“When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.” quote by Paul Dirac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3c4/paul-dirac-13270_argument_when-erwin-schr-dinger-went-to-the-solva_191459.jpg)
![“With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would give a comfortable living and sufficient leisure, in order to sacrifice to my gods [mathematical research]. For example, I hope…” quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ac/carl-friedrich-gauss-9412_accepting_with-a-thousand-joys-i-would-accept-a-no_1968144.jpg)
