Biography Quotes

A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.

I was born with my eyes turned inward.

But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately.

This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography.

There is no history of anything happening until it does.And then there is.

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you sh

The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.

I want to sling a stone, a small rock into a pool, see it ripple. I want to shake a tree, create a small storm..

The landscape is bathed in the honeyed light of morning. Sometimes the memory of winter comes again. And my days are colored reveries of you, my nights sensuous

Writing is...creating tattoos which are invisible, under your skin

She hands me an ornament of The Virgin Mary. "Pray to the Holy Mary, Mother of God!" I notice she has a gold chain round her neck. It has the holy cross and a shamrock

View other authors as your allies rather than your competition

Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you.

He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.

While some people are good at painting, playing an instrument or singing, I have been told more than once I am good at storytelling. I hope that you enjoy my stories as I recall them.

I do not think it matters whether one agrees or not as long as ons is forced to think.

I do not think it matters whether one agrees or not as long as one is forced to think.

You must be clever, Tracey to do these forgeries.""She's not clever. I did them, " yelled Frieda."You'll get five years.""She did them."From Halfpennies and Blue Vinyl

There is always a danger that those who are less obviously and traditionally important, prominent, or powerful will be left out of the history of human experience.

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

Of the classic fIve W's and an H, Amy's approach seemed to be that when you have a handle on the WHO, the rest will more or less reveal itself accordingly.

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

Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.

Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent

I'm self-taught. I didn't just become a man, it was a decision.

Leaving the world without keeping an heirloom is a degradation of the divine purpose.

Tell them what you do, and if they want to know more, they’ll ask.

Other thoughtful year-round gestures to staff included silver picture frames for wedding anniversaries, flowers to ailing spouses, additional checks for medical bills and even a pet dog

Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received ... jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese

Luggage and guests did not travel together ... in fact, luggage went by a different route, so suitcases could be distributed to guest rooms before they arrived

Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home

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

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold.

Always live your life with your biography in mind, " Dad was fond of saying."Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

If loving the written word is wrong...I don't want to be right!

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

[Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower] 'No other contemporary officer approached his accumulated experience...' From Champion of the Quarterdeck: Admiral Sir Erasmus Gower 1742-1814.

But at the time I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself then my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl.

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

Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it.

It's a terrific book and I can't wait for the movie, " says Phillip Adams on Late Night Live, ABC Radio National.

Was he a good father?"To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No, " I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good father, but he was a good man."Where Dad came from, that meant a great deal more.

When asked if she would accept his affairs to try to keep her marriage, she commented, "I do. I think that speaks for itself.

To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.

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