My Biography Quotes

I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

I was giving a lecture and I said, that's enough about The Photographic Life, meaning my biography, now let's talk about the life of a photograph. And in that one instant I got the title for a potential next book.

What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

There is properly no history, only biography.

Biography is the only true history.

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to anyone, and because I'm a fairly private person, the notion doesn't appeal to me.

Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

LSD...reinforc ed my sense of what was important-creat ing great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.