Quotes of: Biographies Keyword

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

Todd Gitlin

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

William Ellery Channing

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

Antonia Fraser

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

Chris Van Allsburg

Trauma destroys the fabric of time. In normal time you move from one moment to the next, sunrise to sunset, birth to death. After trauma, you may move in circles, find yourself being sucked backwards into an eddy or bouncing like a rubber ball from n...

The Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it? ‘Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.’ Prov. xxvi. 4. ‘Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his ow...

Queer Questions and Ready Replies: A Collection of Four Hundred Questions in History, Geography, Biography, Mythology, Philosophy, Natural History, Sc

long middle finger resembling a twig that it could use for probing for grubs. There is a telling example of convergent evolution when an unrelated species (the Long-Fingered Possum from Papua New Guinea) devised a similar strategy to address the same...

Wish You Were Here: The Official Biography of Douglas Adams

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

Martin Lewis Perl

I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was.

Cilla Black

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

John Kenneth Galbraith

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

Pamela Stephenson

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

Wole Soyinka

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

Lynn Barber

Your past doesn't define who you are. Biography isn't Destiny.

Kathryn Perez

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

Nina Blackwood

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

Conrad Veidt

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

Edmund White