532 Quotes About Biography

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

The story of the self is simply the insight into the emotions of the protagonist and how he interacts with the outside world.

I have always read biographies with a peculiar joy, and in doing so it always appeared to me as if one could not invent a complete person; one only ever discovers one side and the complexity of human existence is never achieved[.]

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.

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

Of the classic fIve W's and an H, Amy's approach seemed to be that when you have a handle on the WHO, the rest will more or less reveal itself accordingly.

History is the biography of murderers.

My family bought a new T.V.the year I came.It lasted seven years.

You don't have to drink this," I said, handing him the champagne. "But Sandy might like it"."No,no. Come on, let's have some," he grinned, popping the cork, taking a swig from the bottle and passing it back. He [HST] rarely failed to show his appreciation of someone appreciating him, which is an admirable trait.