Biographical Quotes

28 Biographical quotes by 27 unique authors

'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the most biographical of… — Sam Abell
There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there… — Alexander McQueen
The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while… — Henry David Thoreau
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant… — Martin Gardner
Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing… — Italo Calvino
The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius… — William James
According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship… — Caroline Myss
Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. — Jim Dine
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. — Robert Smithson
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as… — Henry David Thoreau
One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature of his time, and that… — Merrill C. Tenney
Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness. — Anna Seward
Landscapes can be deceptive. Sometimes a landscape seems to be less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their… — John Berger
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts — Thomas Carlyle
When you take on a role, even if the character is somebody that you are dissimilar to, you have to identify with the role and… — Jesse Eisenberg
I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and… — Mark Hamill
In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting… — David Knopfler
It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all. — Paul Bailey
Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and… — E. J. Hughes
There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot… — Clarence John Laughlin
I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I… — Nile Rodgers
Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,… — Michael Ondaatje
Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades.… — Kristina McMorris
There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done. — Susan Cheever

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