Biographies Quotes

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

When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

The creative person should have no other biography than his works.

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.

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

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.

Our theology must become biography.

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

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

For no sooner had I begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough ], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frazer, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.

I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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.

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

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