"I would like to continue to tell stories……" — Philippe Petit

More Biographical Quotes

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• 'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would… — Sam Abell
• There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my… — Alexander McQueen
• The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will… — Henry David Thoreau
• Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid… — Martin Gardner
• Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them… — Italo Calvino
• The most purely autobiographical ­fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more auto­biographical story than 'The Meta­morphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen
• When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for… — William James
• According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse… — Caroline Myss
• Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. — Jim Dine
• History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. — Robert Smithson
• He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to… — Henry David Thoreau
• One would naturally expect that the Lord Jesus Christ would be sufficiently important to receive ample notice in the literature… — Merrill C. Tenney

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