Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Charlie Chaplin

My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.

Charles Sumner

By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel.

Charles de Gaulle

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself

Charles de Gaulle

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.

Charles de Gaulle

Character is the virtue of hard times.

Charles de Lint

Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.

Charles de Lint

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

Charles Dickens

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

Charles Caleb Colton

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

Charles Spurgeon

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

Alan Watts

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Alan Watts

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Alan Rosenberg

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

Alan Pardew

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Alan Rickman

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Alan Rickman

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

Akon

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don't feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

Chris Chocola

We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.

Chris Bauer

I love any challenge that comes my way, and I've been lucky to have many.

Chris Albrecht

The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.

Chita Rivera

I have always loved a challenge.

Rocky Jarvis

We knew they were going to be tough. They were strong and very deep in singles. It created some real challenges for us.

Mike Bair

We know what our program challenges are and we're working through them together.

Jim DiNello

We know we're going to have tough challenges in the second half. Our schedule gets significantly harder.

Bill Belichick

We know we're facing different challenges and our team is evolving differently. It's all just part of it. Whatever you have to deal with, whatever changes there are, then collectively as a team you manage them.