Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No… — Charles Darwin
[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with… — Henry James
[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. — Bronislaw Malinowski
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself… — Kitty Kelley
I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially. — Kitty Kelley
I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress... It's like a secret society up there. — Kitty Kelley
The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage. — Kitty Kelley
I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your… — Kitty Kelley
Discretion is not the better part of biography. — Lytton Strachey
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. — Alfred Nobel
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was. — Cilla Black
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that. — Nina Blackwood
I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of… — Gustavo Dudamel
I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the… — Jonathan Frakes
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be… — Lauren Groff
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but… — Peter Ackroyd
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh,… — Douglas Brinkley
In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are… — Anthony Giddens
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his… — Jane Campion
I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he… — Miguel Ferrer
I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies. — Seth Grahame-Smith
I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history. — Seth Grahame-Smith
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. — Todd Gitlin
Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's… — David Levering Lewis
Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders… — John Legend

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