I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character… — Miguel Ferrer Copy Share Image
Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography. — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“A well-dressed, self-assured business executive steps into a quiet corner of the conference room, crowded with people. Everyone there is aware of… — Jill Bryant Copy Share Image
If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the… — Meryle Secrest Copy Share Image
I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his… — Teddy Wayne Copy Share Image
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together… — Christopher Buckley Copy Share Image
I built the solenoid and with great expectations late one evening I pressed the switch which sent a current of 40 amperes… — Nicholas Kurti Copy Share Image
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled. — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and… — Leslie Caron Copy Share Image
The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water,… — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn. — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image