Biography quotations

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◆ I regret that I didn't realize that actually they've got no power over you at school — it's all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

- Russell Brand99

◆ I don't read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.

- Bauvard99

◆ The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.

- Rachel Carson99

◆ I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

- Alexander Vassilieff99

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

- Bob Monkhouse99

◆ I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.

- Anne Spollen99

◆ All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.

- Anne Bront?99

◆ Tout est question d'équilibre

- Mireille Guiliano99

◆ He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

- George Plimpton99

◆ For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd Work Of Nature my life has been. If I were now to inscribe my own History with its unparalleled Sufferings and surprizing Adventures (as the Booksellers might indite it), I know that the great Part of the World would not believe the Passages there related, by reason of the Strangeness of them, but I cannot help their Unbelief; and if the Reader considers them to be but dark Conceits, then let him bethink himself that Humane life is quite out of the Light and that we are all Creatures of Darknesse.

- Peter Ackroyd99

◆ Anyone who likes or hates Dana White should take a look at this.

- June White99

◆ Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

- Jan Wong99

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

- Junnita Jackson99

◆ I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the result I have a teaching certificate for Latin and Hungarian for the lower classes of the gymnasium, for kids from 10 to 14. I never made use of this teaching certificate. And then I came to philosophy, physics, and mathematics. In fact, I came to mathematics indirectly. I was really more interested in physics and philosophy and thought about those. It is a little shortened but not quite wrong to say: I thought I am not good enough for physics and I am too good for philosophy. Mathematics is in between.

- George Pólya99

◆ Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.

- Rick Barnett99