Best Biographies Qoutes
333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors
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I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
— Kate Fleetwood
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On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly…
— Penelope Fitzgerald
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The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
— E. C. Bentley
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The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.
— Julie Salamon
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Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.
— Carrie P Snow
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The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
— Virginia Woolf
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The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or…
— Rachel Carson
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DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close…
— Alvin Ailey
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The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be…
— Max Planck
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Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make…
— Burton Silverman
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Our theology must become biography.
— Tim Hansel
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When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's…
— Criss Jami
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[L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.
— Tom Stoppard
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Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his life…
— Sylvia Plath
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I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a…
— Stevie Jackson
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We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.
— Charles Darwin
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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.
— Charles Darwin
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in…
— Clint Eastwood
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want…
— Julius Erving
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