Biography Quotes

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literatur...

Almost nothing is known about Homer, which explains why so much has been written about him.

What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? Wha...

My dear, it is very nice here, every day two or three persons are stabbed by soldiers in the city; t...

I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just...

You are aware that what they do, they do for the world, and the results are, of course, magnificent....

Biography is the only true history.

I was walking home alone from school and I was wearing a dress. A dude drove by and yelled, "Nice ti...

—a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom.

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all g...

Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for ...

Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs ...

Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as ...

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.

A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice ...

The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. Th...

The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of t...

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...

I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can...

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever.

Fake boobs are weird ya'll" read by Patrick Stewart.

But I was eventually okay. And you will be okay too. Here's why. I had already made a decision early...

If it be good to come under the love of God once, surely it is good to keep ourselves there. And yet...

Awake, my soul! Why should I give hours and days any longer to the vain world, when there is such a ...

All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when ...

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

I'd rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dar...

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only ficti...

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb...

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude ...

Suppose someone tried to write your biography. What nonsense! How much would he know? Would he know ...

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasional...

Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over...

I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I ...

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Foot...

Kill the body and the head will die.

The war was all that mattered to Hitler. Yet, cocooned in the strange world of the Wolf's Lair, he w...

The intoxication with the theatre, with its limelight, costumes, and masks, and with its passions an...

Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he...

To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no bett...

I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big ...

Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extrem...

It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

How exhausted I am suddenly!—though this has been Ray’s best day in the hospital so far, and we are ...

Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which t...

Nor do I like being told upsetting news—unless there is a good reason. I can’t help but feel that th...

That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can’t confront i...

The minutiae of our lives! Telephone calls, errands, appointments. None of these is of the slightest...

Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am fu...

The coolly calibrated manipulation of the credulous American public, by an administration bent upon ...

For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of lone...

It may be that actual tears have stained the tile floors or soaked into the carpets of such places. ...

It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed—to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to m...

It is the most horrific thought—my husband died among strangers.

The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out ...

How strange it is, to be walking away. Is it possible that I am really going to leave Ray—here? Is i...

Loving our parents, we bring them into us. They inhabit us. For a long time I believed that I could ...

She will speculate that she didn’t fully know her husband—this will give her leverage to seek him, t...

Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optim...

Nowhere in a hospital can you walk without blundering into the memory pools of strangers—their dread...

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l...

July 7, 1986: Montreux It is only now that I realize the importance of a biography. I mean I always ...

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a li...

In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.

We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not...

I dreamed of going to the top of Mount Elum like Alexander the Great to touch Jupiter and even beyon...

He laughed a lot, but as a boy he had been so self-conscious about being dark-skinned that he went t...

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing origin...

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his he...

The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look a...

She said, 'No, you learned that you have power - power and determination. I love you and I am proud ...

Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succes...

But the truth is, nothing delights me more than a biography of one of the truly great that proves he...

In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. H...

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not t...

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how ...

For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd...