The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people… — Justin Hayward Copy Share Image
I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who… — Otto Penzler Copy Share Image
According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives.… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out… — Hilary Mantel 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
Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
I'd prefer people read about Churchill and how he wasn't overwhelmed by Nazi Germany. Amazing; that the morale of a country rested… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
I did a lot before [being cast] because I knew how important it would be for playing somebody real, or attempting to… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
But nothing ever put 'Hoppy' in the shade. No one could fail to recognize in the little figure... the authentic gold of… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference… — William Wilson Morgan Copy Share Image
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how… — Victoria Wilson Copy Share Image
Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I read Warren Zevon's bizarre biography, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead." His wife, Crystal Zevon, posthumously published a journal he wrote and… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel… — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance… James Davis's finely… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image