Quotes and Sayings About Biographies
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
-- A. Scott Berg -
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
-- Aaron Allston -
[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.
-- Abraham Pais -
I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'
-- Alexandra Roach -
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
-- Alfred Nobel -
In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news... a Cassandra is never popular in her time.
-- Alice Stewart -
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.
-- Andrew Dickson White