Biographies Quotes · Page 8

Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

— Charles Darwin

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

— Enrico Fermi

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

— Michael Connelly

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

— Pamela Stephenson

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

— A. Scott Berg

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

— Kate Fleetwood

The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired - and tried to emulate even…

— Eva Mendes

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are…

— Joan Didion

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good…

— Aaron Allston

I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography.

— Gene Simmons

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

— Anthony Marra

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How…

— James Hillman

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in…

— Robert Caro

Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to…

— William Golding

Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a…

— David Levering Lewis

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and…

— Liam Neeson

I have always liked reading biographies. It is the ideal literary genre for someone too prim, like me, to acknowledge a gossipy…

— Jill Tweedie

I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us…

— Hilary Mantel

The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career;…

— Charles Darwin

I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an…

— Bill Mumy

Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do…

— Gertrude B. Elion

Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that…

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few…

— Steven Chu

When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read…

— Kate Zambreno

I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has…

— Anonymous

We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -…

— Hans Zinsser

...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,…

— Samuel Johnson

If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…

— Jonathan Franzen

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader…

— Dmitri Shostakovich

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it…

— Ann Wroe

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography.…

— Hunter S. Thompson

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because…

— Jane Campion

My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.

— Astley Cooper

I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this…

— John Sayles

I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.

— Al Sharpton