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character interesting people
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance. Charles Dickens
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows. Charles Caleb Colton
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
character winter giving
Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.
character voice interesting
He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.
character men hands
The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.
character butterfly interesting
Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.
character agony numbers
He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.
character men air
He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
play done form
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play. Alan Watts
play forget notes
You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
play who-i-am people
Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. Alan Rickman
play interesting people
I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
play pursuit said
To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy. Alan Bennett
play scripts film
There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
play people mouths
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
play theatre audience
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare. Alan Ayckbourn
play propaganda
I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda. Alan Alda
want herds
I don't want to follow the herd. Alain Robert
want way connections
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways. Akhenaton
want directors ifs
If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter. Akira Kurosawa
want kind plans
Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want, Akio Morita
want needs nevertheless
God doesn't need anything nevertheless He wants worshipers. Aiden Wilson Tozer
want presence-of-god
I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.
want sovereign want-u
The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honoured for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest.
want christ should
Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.
want indispensable
I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.