Neil MacGregor

The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography, they have many.

British Historian

Justin Hayward

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

British Musician

John Irving

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

American Novelist

Kitty Kelley

I have believed in the biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially.

American Journalist

Jeetendra

My life is very simple, it is not worth being written into a biography, for that 'masala' is required.

Indian Actor

James Buckley

One day I'll bring a biography of my life out and that will be the biggest joke I'll ever tell.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Scottish Philosopher

George Packer

A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.

Susan Isaacs

I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

British Statesman

Biographies focus on a person's life from an outside perspective, not their own thoughts or feelings.

Subject's Perspective

Biographies are usually written by someone other than the subject, providing a different viewpoint.

Third-Party Creation

Biographies often provide historical context, linking an individual's life to the larger cultural or political scene.

Historical Value

Well-crafted biographies provide genuine insights into the character and motivations of the subject.

Authentic Insights

Effective biographies are the product of thorough research, going beyond well-known facts.

In-Depth Research

Biographies often reveal a contrast between a person’s public image and private life.

Public-Private Contrast

Biographies focused on individuals' work give insights into their careers, not just personal lives.

Beyond Personal Life

Some biographies highlight the significant achievements and contributions of a person in their field.

Career Accomplishments

Work-focused biographies can provide a window into the subject's industry and working conditions.

Workplace Insights

 millennia it's important for us to understand the evolution of infectious diseases over time and perhaps also understand how it might change in the future we have a database of names of people we know who are buried here the ultimate goal is to try and connect an individual skeleton to a known biography

What Lies Beneath...

 that someone could put together this incredible collection of businesses without knifing a few people in the back, you know, doing some ugly things. You've been accused of being ruthless. There was a nasty biography written about you by someone. Is any of it true? Is there an element of truth in it?

Life at 30,000 feet PIPE...

 Sheena, there is a detail about your biography that we have not written in the program book. But by now it's evident to everyone in this room. You're blind. And I guess one of the questions on everybody's mind How does that influence your study of choosing because that's an activity

Sheena Iyengar: The art...

 It is actually comedy, they mess with him. Next, and this is something deeper. I think I was on tour when I was reading one of the Feynman biographies. It was the red one or the blue one. And he made this statement that was so profound to me.

Rodney Mullen: Pop an...

 The things we make have one supreme quality -- they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many lives, and in each life they can mean different things. Which means that, while we all have one biography,

Neil MacGregor: 2600...

 Every student who drops out of school has a reason for it which is rooted in their own biography. They may find it boring. They may find it irrelevant. They may find that it's at odds with the life they're living outside of school.

How to escape...

 everybody knows that people who pursue their passions are somewhat obsessive a little strange hmm hmm okay you know a fine line between madness and genius I'm not weird I've reread Steven J's biography oh my goodness I'm not that

Why you will fail to...

 Everybody knows that people who pursue their passions are somewhat obsessive. A little strange. Hmm? Hmm? Okay? You know, a fine line between madness and genius. "I'm not weird. I've read Steven J.'s biography.

Larry Smith: Why you...

 you all but let me tell you a little bit about what I mean at about the age of 10 I gave up on Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella and started reading biographies the ones I liked best were

Breaking boundaries,...

 Writing biography is a strange thing to do. It's a journey into the foreign territory of somebody else's life, a journey, an exploration that can take you places

Biography