Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jan Morris

the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

Dick Van Dyke

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

Antonio Banderas

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say.

Ashley Montagu

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

On a personal level, it's a tough situation. On a professional level, hopefully, the system will work and everyone is satisfied. On a political level, it's never been a part of my campaign, and it won't be now.

On (a more) personal basis, what is wrong with Mr. Ho? He is, in fact, a papal awardee and one of the most respected businessmen in Macau.

Brett Somers

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

Brandon Sanderson

I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Arthur Miller

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

Arthur Ashe

If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

We did real well. We had a lot of personal bests tonight.

Edward Abbey

One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.

Deepak Chopra

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

Aaron Copland

The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.

My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.

Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Anna Kendrick

If I could play the ukulele like Zooey Deschanel, I would find my own personal M. Ward, and we would do a side album; but I don't, you know?

Adele

I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.

Anna Wintour

Gisele Bundchen, along w Kate Moss, is a phenomenon. I wish models knew they have to have a personality

Amy Lee

L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.

Dries van Noten

I like to choose my own way forward. I really do want to create something that I personally like a lot.

Judith Miller

voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations.

Adam Baldwin

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

Aleksandar Hemon

Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals.

Alec Guinness

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

Albert Einstein

The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.

Aldous Huxley

All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter.

Albert Einstein

I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.

Aaron Rodgers

Leadership can't be forced or contrived. It has to be your personality.

A. B. Yehoshua

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

A. E. Housman

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Dave Wannstedt

We probably know each other better from an offensive-defensive standpoint than a personal standpoint.