I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world. — Marie Dressler Copy Share Image
I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I read a lot of biographies, and so much is just so boring or so, like, 'Why did you say that?' — Steve Lukather Copy Share Image
I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy,… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them… — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly… — Irving Stone 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I am almost thanking God that I was never educated, for it seems to me that 999 of those who are so,… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
A new biography came out that says that in high school Obama was a huge pothead … Mitt Romney had to respond… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing.… — John Green Copy Share Image
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to… — Malcolm Gladwell 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
“From the onset of polio in 1921 until his death, Franklin, his family, his inner circle of advisers, and teams of physicians… — Steven Lomazow Copy Share Image
Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — Jane Jacobs 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
“[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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