I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Unusual financial activity: none, unless you count the fact that someone in the family is way too into Civil War biographies. (Can… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. — Bronislaw Malinowski 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 immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel… — Darcey Steinke Copy Share Image
Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess.… — Jalaja Bonheim Copy Share Image
The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired - and tried to emulate even… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I do not want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on… — Hideki Yukawa Copy Share Image
We have the loveliest women in the world in this county and wherever there are beautiful women there will be beautiful clothes.… — Hattie Carnegie Copy Share Image
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields,… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives.… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success.… — Jack W. Szostak Copy Share Image
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am now a mother and a grandmother, and I do not recall that I have ever ignored the claims of the… — Gertrude Kasebier Copy Share Image
How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
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