Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlisle Floyd

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

Buzz Aldrin

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

Natalia Makarova

Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.

Natalie Clifford Barney

One is not oneself every day-fortunately.

Muriel Spark

...try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis;...

Keith Carradine

One can't help but bring one's own personality into what one is doing, and it's certainly true of us actors and it's true of writers.

Kate Chopin

She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.

Julian Clary

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

Ice Cube

When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. I thought, "Half of this is workin'. I'm famous, but now I need to be famous with some money." That got my brain started at trying to figure out the business end. And once I figured out the business side, I next came to understand that success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters.

Iris Murdoch

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

J. K. Rowling

They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality.

Grace Kelly

Although I’ve played a wide variety of roles, I’ve never had the chance to act in a story written specially for me. It’s a pity as they are the only stories that really let you reveal your personality.

Grace Kelly

I was hired to be an actress, not a personality for the press.

Grant Achatz

My personality was always such that I always look straight forward, never behind or to the side.

Georg Brandes

The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools

Humphrey Bogart

An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.

Harvey Weinstein

All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.

Ella Baker

This In Friendship - out of it came certain connections with the liberal labor establishment. Among the personalities that were involved were Bayard Rustin and a person from the American Jewish Congress, Stanley Levinson.

Jonathan Stroud

What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?

Jo Coudert

It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.

John C. McGinley

I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

Henry Van Dyke

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Kurt Cobain

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

Napoleon Hill

No person with a grievance can be also a person with an attractive personality!

Og Mandino

My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.

Norman O. Brown

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Orson Welles

I have an unfortunate personality.

Novala Takemoto

I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.

Melinda Clarke

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

Mary Augusta Ward

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Malcolm X

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

Emma Goldman

Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.