Quotes about character
character long president
The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered. Ulysses S. Grant
character writing facts
I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person. Umberto Eco
character interesting way
I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more interesting than the winners.
character sometimes
Sometimes my characters are not myself.
character evil cracks
I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor. Rodrigo Santoro
character mean voice
Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean. Robin Wasserman
character giving acting
Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person. Robin Williams
character ideas one-line
The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.
character thinking stories
Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you engage that, you engage the reader, and I think you create a character that brings the reader more fully into the story. Robin Hobb
character bird body
Swinburne was an absurd character. He was a bird of showy strut and plumage. One could not but admire his glorious feathers; but, as soon as he began to moult ... one saw how very little body there was underneath. Robert Wilson Lynd
character accomplishment understanding
Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, which portrays Tesla as intensely human. . . . Anyone, whether simply an interested reader or a professional historian, engineer, or physicist, will finish Tesla with a deepened understanding of his world, character, and accomplishments. Robert Rosenberg
character eye feelings
I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas. Robert Ryan
character eye people
Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes. Robert Rodriguez
character actors kind
I started as an actor in the theater playing a lot of character parts, and suddenly, I found myself in this place where it felt like I was getting locked into a kind of a stereotype, and it did bother me. Robert Redford
character cartoon hell
You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.
character talking stupidity
... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers. Robert Musil
character men effort
For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed. Robert E. Lee
character men principles
As a general principle you should not force young men to do their duty, but let them do it voluntarily and thereby develop their characters.
character past men
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which impart sufficient strength to let the past be but the past. A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
character jamaicans bad-things
I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing. Robert Cray
character thinking two
I'm a little worried about a Batman versus Superman movie just because it's... I just think it's really tough to pull off. I'm very excited about seeing it, but I think it's really tough to balance those two characters in the same movie. Robbie Amell
character bored debt
'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten. Rob Sheffield
character location
Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations. Rob Zombie
character gay people
I’m quite flirtatious with anyone. Some people, because I’m playing a gay character, get quite nervous. And I have to reassure them. I’m like, ‘I’m not gay. I’m not coming on to you. Yet.’ Rob James-Collier
character evil normal
You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior.
character comeback
The head writer loves that my character is a boor. Rob Corddry
character order names
The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria. Richard Owen
character delicate-things evil
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. Richard Hofstadter
character criticism inquiry
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
character men inference
You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered. Richard Dawkins
character care may
Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any. Richard Whately
character needs may
It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.
character nephilim firsts
It was a nephilim.” “A nephi-what?” asked Hugh, startled. “Isn’t that a character on Sesame Street?” Peter spoke up for the first time. Richelle Mead