Biographies Quote by Louis Fischer Download Open image “Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.” — Louis Fischer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies Biography Biography History Definitions History History Seen Inspirational Person Persons Prism Person Prisms
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates. — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on… — Philip Guedalla Copy Share Image
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study.… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“At the root of innumerable wrongs in our civilization is the discrepancy between word, creed and deed. It is the weakness of churches, states,… — Louis Fischer Copy Share Image
“A person may be smaller in success than in defeat; it depends on what he is trying to do” — Louis Fischer Copy Share Image
“We live, he [Gandhi] felt, not in order to feed, clothe, shelter and pamper the body; we provide for the body in order to… — Louis Fischer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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