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character water taste
Charles Caleb Colton 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.
character long aging
Charles Caleb Colton Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
character winter giving
Charles Dickens 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
Charles Dickens 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
Charles Dickens 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
Charles Dickens 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
Charles Dickens 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
Charles Dickens 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.
acting theatre nerves
Alan Rickman Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
acting actors doe
Al Pacino Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.
acting dies
Al Pacino Either I act or I die.
acting actors crafts
Al Pacino I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
acting i-realized
Al Pacino It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
acting vulnerable uncomfortable
Beau Garrett Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
acting actresses fascinating
Beatrice Wood You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
acting firsts disguise
Antony Sher What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.
acting retiring great-things
Denzel Washington We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.
things-i-love cheese my-favorite
Chloe Sevigny I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.
things-i-love ifs
Bob Geldof Playing live if the thing I love doing best
things-i-love television watches
Bridget Regan The genre of television that I love and watch is so vast. There's not one type of thing I love.
things-i-love world crowds
Anna Paquin I get paid to do the thing I love most, and maybe that makes blending into the crowd impossible sometimes, but I wouldnt trade it for the world.
things-i-love lines pressure
Stephen King I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it),...
things-i-love josh turner
Scotty McCreery One thing I love about Josh Turner is his faith; that's why I looked up to him so much.
things-i-love driving
Kimi Raikkonen Driving is the only thing I love about F1.
things-i-love said clear
Jesmyn Ward While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.
things-i-love theater
Judi Dench The theater is the thing I love doing most.