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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.
pieces
We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there, Charlotte Moore
pieces paper causes
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. Charles Mackay
pieces film periods
Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. Cary Elwes
pieces pilots watches
I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot. Calista Flockhart
pieces puzzle starting
We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.
pieces lasts tools
Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool. Elizabeth Olsen
pieces improvement daily-life
Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life. Benjamin Franklin
pieces tricks software
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written. Bill Gates
pieces
The more pieces you have to a process, the more expensive.
differentiation happens
We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. Alan Watts
different film should
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made. Alan Parker
different
I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same. Chris Burke
different shows show-business
I'm in a whole different part of show business. I'm not even part of Shakespeare in Love. Eddie Murphy
different persons
I cannot say something different to one person and then another. Agnes Varda
different invisible
When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different. Charles de Lint
different want
I want to be different from anyone ever. Chamique Holdsclaw
different working-it oversight
Our success has come from the lack of oversight we've provided, and our success will continue to be from a lack of oversight. But if you're going to provide minimal oversight, you have to buy carefully. It's a different model from GE's. GE's works - it's just very different from ours. Charlie Munger
different wayne
Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable. Billy West