Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Ellery Channing

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

John Arbuthnot

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Eric Bentley

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Kate Fleetwood

I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

Martin Lewis Perl

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.

James McBride

Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel.

Hilaire Belloc

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Todd Jones

I think it's admirable what he did, because there have been some guys in recent history that have gotten their contract and gotten hurt and went home, never to be seen again. Knowing Troy, he was going to have to (try) because he was professional in every aspect of the game, so you didn't expect him to just not show up and collect his checks. He was going to try and pitch because he's a competitor first and foremost.

Ed Crawford

I think it is admirable that he has dedicated his skills to build this clock to benefit our high school. I know it's a time-consuming effort. It's very generous of him.

Doug Marrs

He's a different dimension, we thought (McClanahan) did an admirable job being put in the situation he was placed in the last time, but J.T. wants to run the ball. It's nice to have a quarterback that wants to run the ball.

Dawn Rogers

I think that's an admirable philosophy. But one, you have to win some of those games, and playing teams and not being able to win a certain number of those games in the end can hurt - and can hurt the league, potentially.

Brian Rogers

He was one of our best defenders. He was our point guard, and he was forced to play that spot even though he's more suited for the two guard spot. But he did an admirable job with it.

Pete Boone

He had three or four years of experience in his one year. If you go and look at the things he had to do ... he had to dismiss players, had to dismiss a coach. So many of the things he had to do, a lot of coaches go two or three years without having to do. I think he has done an admirable job in growing at such a fast rate.

Rick Santorum

He has quite an admirable record of race relations in Mississippi and got the unanimous support of the African-American community in Mississippi, including the NAACP.

Matthew Shultz

Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.

Kevin Mahoney

I personally believe that the police routinely violate an individual's rights and as defense attorneys we're always fighting an uphill battle. In my opinion, it is extremely admirable for a judge to have the courage to suppress evidence in a serious case like this.

Pablo Picasso

For those who know how to read, I have painted my autobiography

Joe Biden

Everyone plagiarizes me. Ever since I wrote my autobiography.

Berenice Bejo

I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

Janet Jackson

I like to read. Autobiographies.

Dixie Lee Ray

Nature did not make me willowy.

Doris Lessing

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

Clare Boothe Luce

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies.

Clare Boothe Luce

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

Abraham Lincoln

I was raised to farm work.