Biographies Quote by Rachel Holmes

A devotee's life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.

— Radhanath Swami

Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to…

— Seamus Heaney

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

— Thomas Carlyle

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

— Rachel Holmes

I try very hard to live my life in an exemplary way, which is, you know, 'Shine bright like Frankie.'

— Frankie Grande

“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I didn’t think any biography could do justice to one of the few honest-to-goodness geniuses of our time, a walking paradox who wore a…

— Otto Penzler

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

An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.

— Peter Handke

By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly…

— Geoff Mulgan

There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that also became…

— Jill Stein