The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best… — Harold Acton Copy Share Image
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. — James McBride Copy Share Image
Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the… — Mark Frauenfelder Copy Share Image
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review… — Abraham Pais Copy Share Image
Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of… — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing.… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image