Biographies Quotes · Page 3

[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.

— Christopher Kelk Ingold

“Lives do not have plots, only biographies do.”

— Guy Davenport

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

— Art Shay

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

— Phyllis Rose

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

— Joseph Campbell

I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?'

— Steve Lukather

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

— Conrad Veidt

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

— Deepak Chopra

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

— Albert Einstein

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.

— G. H. Hardy

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

— Marie Dressler

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

— Walter Isaacson

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!

— Erin Duffy

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

Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could…

— Charles Darwin

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It…

— Rachel Holmes

[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ...

— Lord Kelvin

My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept…

— Astley Cooper

Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance… James Davis's finely…

— David Levering Lewis

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be…

— Ashwin Sanghi

I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and…

— Dave Barry

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

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of…

— John Legend

Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in…

— Davies Gilbert

...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the…

— Charles Darwin

A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they…

— Hillary Clinton

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

“From the onset of polio in 1921 until his death, Franklin, his family, his inner circle of advisers, and teams of physicians…

— Steven Lomazow

I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies,…

— Susan Sarandon

The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of…

— Philip Kitcher

When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's…

— Criss Jami

[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever…

— Ralph Kiner

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

— Rachel Holmes

I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up

— Frank Lampard

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

— Philip Roth

I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.

— Emma Forrest

Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

— Keshia Chante