Biography Quotes

231 Biography quotes by 182 unique authors

I'm an avid biography reader. — Brent Spiner
Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche
But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so… — Unknown Author
Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death. — Virginia Woolf
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought… — Rebecca West
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do… — John Dominic Crossan
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events… — Barbara Kruger
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. — Richard Attenborough
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in… — Bill Mumy
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. — Pamela Stephenson
A new biography came out that says that in high school Obama was a huge pothead … Mitt Romney had to respond to this and… — Bill Maher
Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work. — Unknown Author
If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography… — Unknown Author
They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you are outside...notice the… — Jonathan Balcombe
I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this… — Jonathan Dimbleby
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Edward Abbey
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised… — Margaret Atwood
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and… — William James
A photograph is a biography of a moment. — Unknown Author
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end… — Aharon Appelfeld
I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a… — Alexandra Roach
I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography. — Pierre Boulez
The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us… — Anne Michaels

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