I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me. — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage. — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers. — Bruno Tonioli Copy Share Image
Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history. — Michael Holroyd Copy Share Image
I don't make films about celebrities, are not interested in celebrities. I don't make biographies at all. — Heidi Ewing Copy Share Image
According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again.… — David Strathairn 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
If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Sin in the Second City is a masterful history lesson, a harrowing biography, and - best of all - a superfun read.… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research is extraordinary;… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancée ... Life stands before me like an… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
I push back against a deeply-entrenched tendency in American culture to label quickly and no longer even examine the labels that were… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental… — Carolyn Merchant Copy Share Image
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 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
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats -… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
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