Top 479 Biography Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
My life is very simple, it is not worth being written into a biography, for that 'masala' is required.
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.
My scepticism of biography continues even though I keep doing it.
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress... It's like a secret society up there.
Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.
Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
I am reading the biography of Pep Guardiola. I find it really interesting.
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.
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
I liked Tom Bower's biography of Bernie Ecclestone, the former Formula 1 boss.
A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.
I can't even get people to spell my name right in my own biography!
I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.
biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.
One day I'll bring a biography of my life out and that will be the biggest joke I'll ever tell.
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.
Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
The creative person should have no other biography than his works.
Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.
I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.
You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him.
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
