Biographies Quote by David Levering Lewis

Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In…

— Gertrude B. Elion

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

— Joseph Campbell

If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in…

— Charles Lindbergh

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

— Emmylou Harris

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best…

— Samuel Smiles

All Philosophy is Biography

— Peter J. Carroll

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive…

— Theodore Dalrymple

I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or…

— Albert Goldbarth

The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I…

— Ron Chernow

I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent…

— Joan Didion

I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's…

— Dave Grohl

Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only…

— Charles Darwin