Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Van Dyke

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

Aaron Copland

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

Aaron Rodgers

Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.

Charles Edison

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Charles de Lint

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

Chris Colfer

I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

Chris Christie

As we all grow and we get older, there are always little changes about our personality that happen.

David Sanborn

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Carolina Herrera

In anything you do, it's important to have your own personality there.

Margot Kidder

They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.

Warren Rudman

He was somewhat of an enigma to many people. I'm not so sure he didn't get along, he just didn't mix a lot with people. He didn't seem to have a lot of friends.

Jeff Feuerzeig

He started as an enigma to me; he remains an enigma to me.

Katharine Blake

It surprised everybody because the initial motivation was just recreationally oriented, but we all share a fascination with all things romantic and the mediaeval period, that enigmatic period is open to a lot of interpretation.

Harry Hamlin

I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.

Steve Winwood

And also there hasn't been much footage of Traffic either. There is very little in existence and since Traffic is a very enigmatic and unusual band, we thought that now was the time to put this out and give people a taste of what Traffic was really about.

Robert Smithson

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Howard Mumford Jones

Nature seen from the point of view of common sense is commodity; from the point of view of reason it is an alphabet or allegory of divinity.

Gyorgy Ligeti

My father was a bank clerk. He was also a Utopian Socialist and he wrote a Utopian novel. It was a kind of allegory or fairy tale.

China Mieville

I don't like allegory.

Charles Baudelaire

Everything for me becomes allegory

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All perishable is but an allegory.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.