Quotes about character
character writing stories
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock. William H. Gass
character mean views
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years. William Golding
character two interesting
I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships. William Baldwin
character towns
The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other. Wilfrid Sheed
character reflection blow
Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control our surface reactions, but we can sit at the helm of our lives and control our responses to the blows of life. Wilferd Peterson
character play comedy
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. Washington Irving
character differences produce
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.
character facts littles
Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.
character past thinking
How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten.
character world natural
There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde; which, in the commerce of world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.
character sight singing
I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida. Walter Legge
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 water ignorant
No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet. Voltaire
character men reputation
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
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.