“If just one person has done it, it can be done. by V.L. Marshall” — Verity Louise Marshall Copy Share Image
I liked Tom Bower's biography of Bernie Ecclestone, the former Formula 1 boss. — Theo Paphitis Copy Share Image
“But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.” — Diane Middlebrook Copy Share Image
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the willingness and ability to choose your own path and experience your life as your true self.” — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
“Don’t just make your life a documentary of compromised relationships rather live notorious, fearless and scandalous life to be part of others… — AnkitMishra Copy Share Image
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
“Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home” — Estella M. Chung Copy Share Image
“... it is the purpose of this history to trace not the mere outlines of a life but the inner plan, not… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.” — Marjorie Watts Copy Share Image
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity… — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
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
“Two unwritten rules of peacekeeping existed. You’d expect it would be easy to keep two rules, but I broke the first one.… — Tammy Pemper Copy Share Image
“Gregor flushed as he went on: "The entire content of the Confesions could be put into one single sentence in the book:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The French army had crowned a campaign of extraordinary successes by defeating the Austrians at Jemappes and pressing on to occupy a… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long known in popular slang as Bedlam.… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
“[I]t is easier to be an insider as an outsider than to be an outsider as an insider...You will face more hate… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“After moving his family from Yakima to Paradise, California, in 1958, he enrolled at Chico State College. There, he began an apprenticeship… — William L. Stull Copy Share Image
“Come the revolution, however, mesmerism was reconceived once more. From its beginnings many had seen it as an aristocratic fad: Mesmer (by… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“Honouring the youth of their town they provided a décor that a £20-a-Martini fleecing parlour could not have amortized. They had bought… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most difficult thing about loving and helping an addict, which most people who haven't been through it don't understand, is… — Mitch Winehouse Copy Share Image
“The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
“No one can imagine the kind of pressure being president of the U.S. imposes on an individual and how easily a president… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
“You are aware that what they do, they do for the world, and the results are, of course, magnificent. But when you… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image