“I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.” — Alfred Bernhard Nobel Copy Share Image
“Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received ... jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese” — Estella M. Chung Copy Share Image
I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank… — Kitty Kelley Copy Share Image
“If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet… — Andrew Bonar Copy Share Image
I felt that Stephen had become such a significant figure, a scientist of such international renown, that at some future date, someone… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
“I’m chasing after that Holy Shit effect. If this sounds arrogant, that’s because it is. If you don’t believe in your own… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“He has no education. He has no skills. He doesn't know what to do, where to be. The world has been taught… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism,… — Sarah Jane Butfield Copy Share Image
I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom. — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
“We had a teacher called Fanny Menlove, and I remember once when she was out of the room Nancy went up to… — Peter FitzSimons 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
“Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.” — Bradley Steffens Copy Share Image
“George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or… — Justin Spring Copy Share Image
“The paths carved by the divine carpenter into her palms are actually treasure maps showing the way to heaven.” — J y Tacheva 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
“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
“This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by… — Robert K. Massie Copy Share Image
“If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had… — Graham Robb Copy Share Image
“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.” — Annie Cohen-Solal Copy Share Image
“Deep down we all know that freedom is a choice, yet so many of us don’t feel that truth.” — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
