I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev. — Alexander III of Russia Copy Share Image
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was. — Cilla Black Copy Share Image
I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both. — Michael Holroyd Copy Share Image
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction. — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the… — Meryle Secrest Copy Share Image
Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for history, we are living in its ruins. And as for biographies, we are living with the consequences of all the… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
Well, in the first place, it leads to great anxiety as to whether it's going to be correct or not ... I… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure.… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
“Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As an actor, you're constantly searching for that great character. Also, being a history buff and learning about people in our past… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
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