Biographies Quotes - Page 3

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

Biography is the only true history.

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

All Philosophy is Biography

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent.

Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor.

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and ones own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.