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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.
opportunity identity limits
A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning. Alan Arkin
opportunity actors stuff
If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for. Al Pacino
opportunity each-day new-opportunity
Each day presents a new opportunity to experience God's presence. Aiden Wilson Tozer
opportunity america miracle
I realize that Kenya and America are very different, but experiences like this warned me that my own favorite beliefs in the miracles of free enterprise and the boundless opportunities to be had in America were largely untrue Chris Coons
opportunity water world
One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and have the opportunity to create an actual water set outside, which will allow us to build a boat and probably part of another ship to be able to really bring that world to life. Chris Albrecht
opportunity careers may
Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.
opportunity conservative
I went into the foreign service because I was interested in politics. But, in 1991, when I joined, I didn't see much of an opportunity to be involved in federal politics as a Conservative. We were at the tail end of the Brian Mulroney era. I wanted to do something non-partisan as a way of preparing for a role in our politics later. Chris Alexander
opportunity privilege down-and
The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things. Chris Abani
opportunity endurance process
Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself. Chin-Ning Chu
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