Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

Carlos Fuentes

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

Carlos Fuentes

The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.

Carlos Castaneda

Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit.

Carl Barks

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

Carl Bernstein

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed.

C. S. Lewis

Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables.

C. S. Lewis

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Brent Weeks

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

Earl Johnson

She could see the good in all people. See seemed to ignore the flaws and frailties.

Dave Glasgow

We learned we're not untouchable. But there are flaws on this team.

Johann G. Hamann

We see the impossibility of remedying all inequalities in human society and we see an overwhelming number of deficiencies and flaws in it.

Michael Redd

We knew that we had to get out and run tonight. But I don't know of any flaws that we had in our offensive game. Everyone got hot tonight.

Adriano Giannini

I grew up a very open and free mind, but also with the flaws of a look on life with too much liberty than people normally have.

Tyra Banks

I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have.

Debbi Fields

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

Drew Barrymore

Don't show your flaws.

David Hockney

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

Carl Rogers

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

Christopher Plummer

I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

Patsy Cline

Im gonna be something one of these days.

Ethel Merman

Who's happy these days?

Jack Levine

Impulses are hard to come by these days.

Miguel Syjuco

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Eric Topol

I am prescribing a lot more apps than medications these days.

Richard Louv

These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.