Biography sayings
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- Walter Isaacson99◆ The features of character are carved out of adversity.
- Rick Barnett99◆ George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with
- Justin Spring quoting Samuel Steward99◆ Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
- Benjamin Disraeli99◆ "Reading history is good for all of us," he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: "If you know history, you know that there is no such thing as a self-made man or self-made woman. We are shaped by people we have never met. Yes, reading history will make you a better citizen and more appreciative of the law, and of freedom, and of how the economy works or doesn't work, but it is also an immense pleasurethe way art is, or music is, or poetry is. And it's never stale."
- David C McCullough99◆ Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is [as] unfair as only sport can be.
- Philip Guedalla99◆ From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout act that ever was in the history of the theater, not only in the United States but all over Europe as well. We used to get arrested every other week--that is, the old man would get arrested. The first crack out of the box here in New York state, the Keith office raised my age two years, because the original law said that no child under 5 could even look at the audience, let alone do anything. So they said I was 7. And the law read that a child can't do acrobatics, can't walk a wire, can't juggle--a lot of those things--but there was nothing said in the law that you can't kick him in the face or throw him through a piece of scenery. On that technicality, we were allowed to work, although we'd get called into court every other week, see.
- Buster Keaton99◆ Boswell is the first of biographers
- Thomas Babington Macaulay99◆ I can find my biography in every fable that I read
- Ralph Waldo Emerson99◆ The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
- Leon Edel99◆ 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.
- John Updike99◆ Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.
- Mark Feeney99◆ Biography is the only true history
- Thomas Carlyle99◆ Biography lends to death a new terror.
- Oscar Wilde99◆ The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.
- Mary Cable99
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