Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Arthur Ashe

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

Bertrand Russell

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

Ben Gazzara

some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role .

Alan Coren

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

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.

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.

Dick Van Dyke

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

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.

Alexis Carrel

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

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.

Adele

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

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.

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.

Conan O'Brien

No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .

Dwyane Wade

I'm just showing my personality in my clothing.

Ram Dass

You must come to see every human being Including yourself, As an incarnation In a body or personality, going through a certain Life experience which is functional.

David Jeremiah

The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

David Eddings

It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

Davey Havok

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

David Ogilvy

Making the logo twice the size is often a good thing to do, because most advertisements are deficient in brand identification. Showing the clients' faces is also a better stratagem than it may sound, because the public is more interested in personalities than in corporations. Some clients can be projected as human symbols of their own products.

Billy Graham

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.

Anne Lamott

You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.