Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Janet Reno

I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

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.

Eckhart Tolle

God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.

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.

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.

Alber Elbaz

I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

Daniel J. Boorstin

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

D. A. Carson

Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can see and read the personalities of the human authors with their individual vocabularies and literary genres, and yet this is nevertheless the word of God. How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.

Daniel Pipes

You can't just read the Koran to understand Muslim life. You have to look at history, at personalities, at economics, and so on.

Daniel Radcliffe

I have a very busy personality.

Douglas Coupland

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

Aneurin Bevan

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

Chuck Barris

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

Angie Harmon

My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger,