Quotes about character
character play interesting
I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play. Walter Koenig
character white helpful
I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character. Walter Martin
character years law
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters. Walter Jon Williams
character politics journalism
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him. Walter Lippmann
character men reputation
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. Voltaire
character thinking ideas
Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing
character views effectiveness
What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary distinction; second, its necessary supremacy. These characters though external have been so essential to its fruitfulness, as to justify the statement that without them religion is not religion. A merged religion and a negligible or subordinate religion are no religion. William Ernest Hocking
character men practice
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion. William Ernest Henley
character compassion people
Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on. William Stafford
character judging personality
A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers. William Ralph Inge
character brown
Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong. William Lacy Clay, Jr.
character actors lucky
If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character William Hurt
character evil office
The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread. William C. Bryant
character coward firsts
Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain. William Butler Yeats
character numbers movement
Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions. Wilhelm Wundt
character tvs yeah
Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters. Will Arnett
character ifs
If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny about it.
character
Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us. Wilhelm von Humboldt
character mind-love solitude
If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.
character russia people
The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people. Wilhelm Reich
character responsibility men
The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature and against the social misery which surrounds him. This characterolgical armoring of the character is the basis of isolation, indigence, craving for authority, fear of responsibility, mystic longing, sexual misery, and neurotically impotent rebelliousness.
character average form
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.
character matter form
Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form. Walter Savage Landor
character tragedy denmark
The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out. Walter Scott
character self excellence
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
character expression order
A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character. William Morris
character home simple
It is no accident that I made Cartoon Town a simple little village - in many ways it mirrored my home town. And, yes, many of my puppet characters took on some of the more eccentric characteristics of people I knew there. William Jackson
character men support
The harm which is done by credulity in a man is not confined to the fostering of a credulous character in others, and consequent support of false beliefs. William Kingdon Clifford
character thinking people
There are actors I know personally, or I've heard them say, "The less known about me, the better, because I just want people to think of me as the character." I think Matt Damon said that recently. He has a point and I think I get that. Winona Ryder
character play interesting
As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.
character destiny watches
Watch your character for your character is your destiny. Winston Churchill
character actors character-actors
I like Edward G. Robinson - he started as a character actor and became a lead, which is probably why I like him. William Sanderson
character names mind
Imprint deep upon your minds the principles of piety towards God, and a reverence and fear of His holy name. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and its consummation is everlasting felicity. Possess yourselves of just and elevated notions of the Divine character, attributes, and administration, and of the end and dignity of your own immortal nature as it stands related to Him. William Samuel Johnson