#biographies

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #biographies




I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.


Leslie Caron


#biographies #called #find #got #hate

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.


Deepak Chopra


#negative #portray #side #some #western

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler.


Gustavo Dudamel


#books #cannot #completely #different #different subjects

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.


Meg White


#autobiographies #biggest #find #i #idols

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.


Jurgen Habermas


#before #biographies #drawn #few #had

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.


Anthony Holden


#beginning #being #biographies #book #called

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded!


Erin Duffy


#book #fiction #fun #good #historical

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.


Jonathan Frakes


#american #american literature #baseball #biographies #condition

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.


John Legend


#biographies #bit #booker #civil #civil rights

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.


Walter Lippmann


#beings #beliefs #biographies #collapses #determined