Quotes about character
character creating political
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature, mind and body are kept in a state of permanent mobilization for the defense of this universe. Herbert Marcuse
character men foundation
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women. Herbert Hoover
character men boys
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.
character opportunity america
Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands.
character criticism cottages
I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.
character years fishing
Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.
character law moral-fiber
National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.
character soul my-soul
There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not. Evelyn Underhill
character writing exercise
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed. Evelyn Waugh
character apology grace
Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.
character reality trying
I let the comedy come through the character and just try to make sure that everything is kind of rounded in a truth, in a reality, because that's what I need to make a character work. Eugene Levy
character family-love men
I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
character laughing comedian
One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I've never done stand-up and I never will. I'm a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.
character comedian actors
I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.
character air knowing
Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what you are going to tell them; when, in their turn, they begin to speak, they repeat to you with the greatest confidence, as if dealing with their own property, the things that they have heard you say yourself at some other place. A capable and superior look is the natural accompaniment of this type of character. Eugene Delacroix
character fire trials
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience. Estelle
character luck cant
You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you. Estelle Parsons
character men names
If a woman goes out with different men on different days, women only will question her character and call her all sort of names. Esha Gupta
character looks film
I'd rather be appreciated for my character in a film than my looks.
character inheritance care
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the environment. Ernst Haeckel
character kids thinking
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple. Ernest Hemingway
character simple play
I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes. Eva Green
character dames wonderful
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame Ethel Merman
character creative moral
After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble. Etty Hillesum
character writing heart
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer's imagination that I set the most high. Eudora Welty
character insightful trying
A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story - you can work more by suggestion - than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps.
character writing doe
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.
character writing cities
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the page you're writing. Wherever you go, you meet part of your story.
character writing plot
The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.
character somewhere-else plot
Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?...
character two minorities
Shows like 'Seinfeld' and 'Friends,' they have, like, one or two damn characters throughout the whole series that are minorities. Esai Morales
character successful science
The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot). Erwin Chargaff
character choices temptation
God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum. Erwin W. Lutzer