Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Robson Belmont

A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

Edwina Currie

One man's priority is another man's extravagence.

Coach Childress embodies class, character and discipline and is a great family man. He is a winner.

Geoff Johns

Aquaman is one of the greatest characters at DC Comics and one of my favorites.

Richard Hatch

Apollo, Athena, these are characters out of Greek mythology-we used a lot of the Egyptian mythology, as well. And we tapped into the premise of, you know, Who is mankind? Where did we evolve from?

Terry Teachout

A playwright who limits himself - or is limited - to a handful of characters is forced to concentrate on the essentials of the situation that he has chosen to portray.

Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

Matthew Lewis

As a character he is really great because he has got the funny sides and the comedy, but he also is kind of useless sometimes.

Sister Parish

Our American forebears included Cotton Mather and Oliver Wolcott, who signed the Declaration of Independence, and we were told that a strong wire of character stretched from them through all generations of our family.

Michael K. Williams

People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.

People say sports teaches character but that's not true. Sports reveals character and then the word of God can come into a life.

Mike White

People sometimes seem surprised because often, you know, you know, there's a lot of tortured characters in the stuff I write.

Or invent new wrinkles or characters or whatever to keep them fresh.

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

The Music Man' is a big undertaking. It's a huge role (for Dan Hill). It's on his back. The character has developed -- he's just doing a terrific job for us.

Johnny Depp

A few people have mentioned it, and it kind of took me by surprise. I really didn't expect that, ... Michael Jackson was not a sort of ingredient or inspiration for the character at all.

Clive Woodward

After last night's match, we are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is such a character,

And we've talked about it and talked about it and talked about it. He's never smoked, he's not a drinker, he's not a party animal. He's just a regular kid who likes to hang out with his friends. He'd rather be at a comedy club or something. No, he's learned some lessons. I don't expect there to be any more trouble out of him. The things that happened were totally out of character for him, totally out of character.

Emily is a fantastic leader. She has been an honor to coach these past three years and I am very proud of her as she leads this team into the 2006 spring dual season. Our younger players are very fortunate to have someone of Emily's character to look up to.

Hosea Ballou

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character

Early on, (Rowling) created characters you can relate to.

Christopher Paolini

Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, ... Even as he has gone through his coming-of-age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming-of-age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.

Steve Carell

Evan Almighty' is sort of a continuation of that ('Bruce Almighty') story. My character is the same guy I played in 'Bruce Almighty,' and as it is now, I am elected to Congress. God visits me while I'm a congressman, and it unfolds from there.

Eric McCormack

First of all, nobody wants to see sitcom characters have sex. I didn't even want to see the Sex and the City girls have sex. This is not why I watch a comedy." ()

Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny

Ronnie Brewer

There was a lot of excitement. We were sluggish at the start and they got out to a big lead. We showed a lot of heart and character to come back.

Andrew Ference

There's strong character in our dressing room. Right now, it's just a matter of execution. If everybody shows up and does their job, I think there's a ton of confidence.

Jeremy Northam

There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.

There's so much character and history in that than there ever would be in a Wal-Mart.

Rick Carlisle

There's a feeling that our players are misinterpreted and a little misunderstood because of various factors. Dress would be one of them. As a league, we know we have good people. We have great guys on our team. . . . I feel like what our team did last year (after the brawl) is a much better indicator of the character and quality of people in our league than anything else people might want to surmise in terms of perception.