Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hannah Storm

Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

Glenn Miller

A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality.

Lynne Truss

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

Jonathan Lethem

I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.

Jonathan Coe

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

Joyce Carol Oates

Shakespeare would seem to have been a person for whom the human voice/personality in all its splendid idiosyncrasy was absolutely enthralling.

Peter Greenaway

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

Mary Douglas

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

Quentin Crisp

You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.

Quentin Crisp

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

Prince

I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality

Emily Post

Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere...

Joel Osteen

I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encouraging; it's just my personality.

Joel Osteen

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

John Deacon

Four personalities are bound to clash.

Linus Torvalds

It's a personality trait: from the very beginning, I knew what I was concentrating on. I'm only doing the kernel - I always found everything around it to be completely boring.

Leif Garrett

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Lauren Conrad

I'm a writer slash designer slash TV personality.

Gustav Mahler

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

Jodie Foster

I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

Julie Chen

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Lauren Bacall

I hope I'm thought of as not just a showbiz personality, but as someone who has lived a life and who has hopefully made a contribution to something along the way - someone who is a human being as well as an actress.

John Key

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

Julie London

Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.

Karl Kraus

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

Karl Lagerfeld

I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.

Karl Lagerfeld

Personality begins where comparison ends.

Oscar Isaac

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

Julian Fellowes

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.

Nancy Grace

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

Paul Newman

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

Marion Cotillard

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

Noam Chomsky

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology