Biographies Quotes

Biographies Quote of the day

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life.

The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.

I'm an avid biography reader.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

Our theology must become biography.

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

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 a single small volume, I always chose Milton.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.

[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.

What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

Your biography becomes your biology.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.

Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

The difference between authorized and unauthorized biographies is the difference between riding in carriage or squatting in steerage.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

All of our theology must eventually become biography.

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

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

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him.

All Philosophy is Biography