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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.
italian america half
In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me. Al Pacino
italian greek way
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. Chita Rivera
italian my-boyfriend jersey
My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci. Diablo Cody
italian-director
But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after. Michelangelo Antonioni
italian looked moustache waxed wore
I always looked up to my grandfather. He wore Italian zip-up CAT boots, and he had a moustache which he waxed into a twirl - now that is worth looking up to. Brandon Boyd
italian studied wrote
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes. Nathaniel Rich
italian needs standards
Italian companies need to re-convert themselves, and such a re-conversion must be toward a better, higher standard. Brunello Cucinelli
italian race dna
There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. . . I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. . . . We're very closely related. Bryan Sykes
italian thinking government
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor. Diego Della Valle
names mind use
Only brand names register in the mind... What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand. Al Ries
names legs bigs
Big name often stands on small legs. Chief Joseph
names history expectations
Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom. Edward Gibbon
names history bishops
Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.
names danger middle
Danger could be my middle name... But it's John. Eddie Izzard
names people mouths
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth. David Horowitz
names cameras invention
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. David Hockney
names who-i-am goal
Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name. Arnold Schwarzenegger
names bears week
I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck. Bear Grylls