Biographies Quotes

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

Biography is the best form of history.

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

I had lost faith in biography.

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.

Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'

In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

The man who walks with Henslow.

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending.

[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.

If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017.

I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more modern ones.

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

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

The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I’ve admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

I don't make films about celebrities, are not interested in celebrities. I don't make biographies at all.

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly put it down.

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.

I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher.

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up against argument.

Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.