I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates. — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. — Kate Fleetwood Copy Share Image
Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist. — Enrico Fermi Copy Share Image
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz. — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an… — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences… — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy… — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country. — Ivan Bagramyan Copy Share Image
Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer. — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life… — Lee Kuan Yew 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
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole… — Charles Darwin 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
That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing.… — Anne Michaels 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
[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J.… — William R. Ferris 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 you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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![“During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to read a book on Geology.” quote by Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42c/charles-darwin-507_biographies_during-my-second-year-at-edinburgh-1826_1350666.jpg)
![“[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so profound, that any attempt to present it as a unified, consistent whole, to enclose it within a rigid frame, inevitably tempts one to cheat or to falsify.” quote by Iris Origo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c4/iris-origo-37752_biographies_on-writing-biography-every-human-life-is_778442.jpg)
![“I know a bit about his [Sirk] life, but it's more about his style than biography. He was European and came out of a theater background, and could easily be defined as 'Brechtian.' He was expressionistic in his films, and was an example of those intensely intellectual artists who ended up working…” quote by Todd Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a42/todd-haynes-2626_american-values_i-know-a-bit-about-his-sirk-life-but-it_1285949.jpg)
