Quotes About Biography

Gli uomini gridavano di volere creare un futuro migliore, ma non è vero. Il futuro è solo un vuoto indifferente che non interessa nessuno, mentre il passato è pieno di vita e il suo volto ci irrita, ci provoca, ci offende, e così lo vogliamo distruggere o ridipingere. Gli uomini vogliono essere padroni del futuro solo per poter cambiare il passato. Si battono per poter entrare nel laboratorio dove si ritoccano le fotografie, dove si riscrivono le biografie e la storia.

Her erkeÄŸin iki çeÅŸit seks biyografisi vard?r: Genellikle yaln?z birincisinden, yani cinsel iliÅŸkiler ve rastlant?lardan oluÅŸan bir listeden sözedilir. Daha ilginç olan?, kuÅŸkusuz öteki biyografidir: elde etmek istediÄŸimiz ve elimizden kaç?rd???m?z kad?nlar?n toplam?, sonuçland?r?lamam?? çabalar?n ac?h öy-küsü.

Every human life has many aspects. The past of each one of us can be just as easily arranged into the biography of a beloved statesman as into that of a criminal.

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.

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

I was a big fan of Kurt Angle when I was growing up. Actually, his book is a big part of the reason that I work out so hard.

This farce with "Titania and Alfred" is not as trivial as it may at first glance seem in the context of a biography. It characterized Elisabeth's relations with her admirers, as well as her inability to separate reality from fantasy. The fact that she spent many hours composing the Alfred poems shows the extent of her isolation.

Is what makes you solid a part of you? If the answer is yes, then you are a child of the big bang and a descendant of explosions, collisions, catastrophes, stars, and galaxies. The protons in your hand have been through every slam, every bash, every disaster, and every creative crash this cosmos has ever managed to throw their way. [...] The story of those cosmic calamities and material miracles is your biography. The story of the universe - from protons and suns to curiosity - is your history.

I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.

At times this biography made him comfortably nostalgic for a verdant, horse-drawn, affectionate England; at others he was faintly depressed by the way a whole life could be contained by a few hundred pages - bottled, like homemade chutney. And by how easily an existence, its ambitions, networks of family and friend, all its cherished stuff, solidly possessed, could so entirely vanish.

Arthur Russell is very important to me on many levels, and when I read Tim Lawrence's biography on him, 'Hold on to Your Dreams,' one of the things I took away was: first thought, best thought. I live by that when I make my own music.

Everyone knows and loves Elton John's music, but the true story of his life is so incredible that it can only be described as a fantasy.

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

In 1994, to motivate me to complete my pilot's license, my good friend, Gregg Maryniak, gave me Charles Lindbergh's autobiography of his solo flight across the Atlantic.

Read biography as history and as the cause of history; take all autobiographies with a grain of salt; and never forget that you must not argue with a book until you fully understand what it is saying.

Richard Rhodes's exceptionally readable The Making of the Atomic Bomb is the place to start. This sweeping chronicle of the difficult and sobering history of the endeavor called the Manhattan Project is marked by Rhodes's insightful studies of the complicated people who were most involved in the creation of the bomb, from Niels Bohr to Robert Oppenheimer. Rhodes followed this book with Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.

Una vez busqué en un diccionario el término hipocondríaco y le saqué una copia. -No sé si lo sabías, pero tu biografía viene en el Diccionario de la Real Academia le anuncié. Echó un vistazo a la fotocopia y me lanzó una mirada de alcayata. -Prueba a buscar en la i de idiota y verás que no soy el único famoso replicó JF.

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

Have you ever thought of writing a biography?" "No. I write fiction." "Some would argue that no genre is more fictitious than a biography.

I would love to read Lady Gaga and Tonya Harding.